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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

You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
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Blame Complaining Overcoming
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
A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.
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Boys Keep Leader Political Time
Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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Fields Sticks Trying
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
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Men Power Reasoning
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Agreement Lying Race
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Good Liars Times Timing
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…
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Lying Peace Salvation Work
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
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
Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Inspirational Leadership Teacher
“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
Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Full Jobs Speculate Time
Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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College Little Past Philosophy
Financial storm definitely passed.
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Depression Financial Great Storm
America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
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Country Decision Light Path Stock
I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Lost Lost Money Profit
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 trading/ investing it’s not about how much you make, but how much you don’t lose
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Investing Loses Trading
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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Age Birthday Years
Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.
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Cities Industries Land Roots Trees
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Courage Encouraging Meaningful
Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.
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Catchy Facts Opinion
Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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Heart Soul Whatever
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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Inspirational Jobs Work
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

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