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Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.

Bernard Baruch

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.
BERNARD BARUCH

Change Grappled Problem Reality Truth
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
BERNARD BARUCH

Approach Problem Views
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.
BERNARD BARUCH

Available Detector Fingerprint Hate Instruments Lying Men Shiver Washing
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Agreement Lying Race
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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Men War Weaponry
Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
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Government Individuality People
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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Age Birthday Years
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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Equality Ships Wisdom
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
I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Lost Lost Money Profit
I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
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Giving Keep Middle Moving Top
Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars.
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Bottom Business Done Liars Trying
Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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Answers Belief Humility
I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
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Men Mistake Motivation Prove Skill
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
Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Full Jobs Speculate Time

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