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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.

Bernard Baruch

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
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Heart People Running Thing
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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Brain Passion Prejudice Sharp
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
Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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Fields Sticks Trying
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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Inspirational Jobs Work
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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Book Friends Giving Old
Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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Answers Belief Humility
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
You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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Blow Light Shining
When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
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Beggar Belief Boys Dangerous Illusion Shoeshine
Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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Heart Soul Whatever
Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
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Art Bucketful Courage Creativity Generous Imagination Teacher
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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Calm Independent Jobs Keep Polite Success Tidy
Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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College Little Past Philosophy
We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Choices Dead Quick Today

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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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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