If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
BERNARD BARUCHEven when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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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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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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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Society can progress if men’s labors show a profit – if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
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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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Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
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Never follow the crowd.
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We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.
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Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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