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Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.

Bernard Baruch

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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Business Money Saving
None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. … The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Art Disappointment Lying
When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
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Beggar Belief Boys Dangerous Illusion Shoeshine
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Business Future Men
Society can progress if men’s labors show a profit – if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
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Loss Men Produce Profit Progress Show Yield
Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don’t be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job.
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Calm Independent Jobs Keep Polite Success Tidy
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Cutting Loss Yield
A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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Ark Country Dangerous Favor Future Repudiate
The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today’s earnings for the future.
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Age Enemy Essence
Don’t pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.
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Friends Loyal Newspaper Pity Prejudice Quick Read
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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Cold Shooting War
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Courage Encouraging Meaningful
We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.
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Contribute Needs Socialism
Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Deceive Destruction Ourselves Peace
Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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College Little Past Philosophy
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
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Approach Problem Views

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.

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