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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

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Hammers Nails Political
Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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People Praise Quick
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with.
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Change Grappled Problem Reality Truth
“The king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly.” My philosophy is like that man’s. I take the long-range view.
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Die Furthermore Horse King Learn Philosophy
Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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Always Hardest Investing Times
Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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Answers Belief Humility
Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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Humble Market More Way
Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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Agreement Sanction Secure Tranquil Understanding
So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.
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Available Detector Fingerprint Hate Instruments Lying Men Shiver Washing
All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Investing Movement Psychology
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
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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Funny Humor Men
Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.
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Aged Anything Enemy Inflation Old
Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged.
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Heart Love Mistake Task Undertake
The path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom – the clothing of the grave – that some people believe she is already fitted for.
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Ago Clothes Grave Hundred People Some Years Young
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

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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