Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
BERNARD BARUCHOne of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
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I never lost money by turning a profit.
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During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
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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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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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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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Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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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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A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year – on the condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. “Within a year,” the man explained later.
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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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