No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
BERNARD BARUCHIf the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
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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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I made my money by selling too soon.
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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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Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged.
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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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Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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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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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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Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
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You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
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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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Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with.
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Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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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 don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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