There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
BERNARD BARUCHEveryone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.
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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don’t be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job.
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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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Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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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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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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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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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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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
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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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Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
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Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.
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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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Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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