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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.

Bernard Baruch

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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Country News Observes Pages
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
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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Aged Anything Enemy Inflation Old
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Destruction Peace War World
All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Investing Movement Psychology
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
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
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Business Future Men
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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Business Experiment Fool Government
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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Change Grappled Problem Reality Truth
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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Business Money Saving
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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Equality Ships Wisdom
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Communication Ideas Important
So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.
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Available Detector Fingerprint Hate Instruments Lying Men Shiver Washing
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Cutting Loss Yield
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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Knowing Passion Thinking

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