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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.

Bernard Baruch

Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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Heart Soul Whatever
Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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Fields Sticks Trying
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
We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
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Bridges Crosses Economy
I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
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Giving Keep Middle Moving Top
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
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Courage Encouraging Meaningful
Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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People Praise Quick
What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
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Country Made Record Reliance Sturdy
Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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Bears Investment Parks
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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Cold Deceived Midst Today War
Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
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Economy Increase Men Produce
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Business Future Men
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
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Experience Man Numbers Retirement Teacher
When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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Country News Observes Pages
Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
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Government Individuality People
I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
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Learn Men Observation
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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Blessing Discipline Freedom
Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Full Jobs Speculate Time
A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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Ark Country Dangerous Favor Future Repudiate
Financial storm definitely passed.
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Depression Financial Great Storm
Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters – or anyone – bringing gifts of ‘inside’ information or tips. Don’t try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.
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Barbers Best Beware Field Information Know Stick Waiter
If 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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Disarmament Past Peace Years
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
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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Doors Luck Player
We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.
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Contribute Needs Socialism
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Cutting Loss Yield

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