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I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

Bernard Baruch

Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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Fields Sticks Trying
Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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Always Hardest Investing Times
Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Full Jobs Speculate Time
Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot–or if you do not know how to improve on things–then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.
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Change Fact Improve Knowing Situation Thing
Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time… When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
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Believe Mistaken Something Two Years
You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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Blow Light Shining
Financial storm definitely passed.
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Depression Financial Great Storm
It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Difficult Knows Sells
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
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Fall Higher Insurance Money Pension Unemployment
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
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Action Error Life Motivational Private
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
Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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Answers Belief Humility
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
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Blessing Discipline Freedom
In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world’s greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.
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Covenant Greatest Nothingness Scarcely Unexampled
Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
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Being Fortune Quickly Right Sense Wrong
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

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

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