A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
BERNARD BARUCHBeware 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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You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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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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What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
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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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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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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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I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .
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Even 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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The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England
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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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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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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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