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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

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
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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Expectations Thinking Work
Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all…
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Knowing Passion Thinking
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
All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Investing Movement Psychology
Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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People Praise Quick
There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
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Health Incurable Men Science Things
I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Lost Lost Money Profit
It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Difficult Knows Sells
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
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Character Technology Thinking
Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Loss Men Power Reason Something Trying
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
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Heart People Running Thing
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Agreement Lying Race
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Imagination Inspirational Intelligence
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

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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