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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.

Bernard Baruch

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Men Power Reasoning
I made my money by selling too soon.
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Business Finance Selling
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Good Liars Times Timing
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
A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year – on the condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. “Within a year,” the man explained later.
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Assuring Die Explain Horse Kings Later Majesty Man Philosophy
Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Forests Insider Play Tree
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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Learn Men Observation
Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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Answers Belief Humility
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
Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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Bears Investment Parks
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
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Hammers Nails Political
Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Listen Most Mostly People Successful
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 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
When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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Country News Observes Pages

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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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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