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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

Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars.
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Bottom Business Done Liars Trying
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
No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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Anger Humiliate Men
It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Difficult Knows Sells
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Agreement Lying Race
Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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Always Hardest Investing Times
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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Men War Weaponry
Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Deceive Destruction Ourselves Peace
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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Believe Maturity Path Years
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
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
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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Friends Loyal Newspaper Pity Prejudice Quick Read
I made my money by selling too soon.
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Business Finance Selling
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Disappointment Freedom Keepin Promise
When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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Country News Observes Pages
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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Believe Mistaken Something Two Years

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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