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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.

Bernard Baruch

Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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Humble Market More Way
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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Funny Humor Men
Society can progress if men’s labors show a profit – if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
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Loss Men Produce Profit Progress Show Yield
You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
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Communism Government Important Political Struggle
Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.
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Catchy Facts Opinion
All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Investing Movement Psychology
Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Full Jobs Speculate Time
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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Cold Shooting War
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Cutting Loss Yield
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
Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Attention Pay President
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
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
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
Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot–or if you do not know how to improve on things–then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.
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Change Fact Improve Knowing Situation Thing
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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Men Mistake Motivation Prove Skill
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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Men War Weaponry
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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Inspirational Jobs Work
Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged.
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Heart Love Mistake Task Undertake
The stock market is people.
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Market People Stock
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
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
Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Inspirational Leadership Teacher
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
Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Deceive Destruction Ourselves Peace
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

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