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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.

Bernard Baruch

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
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
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
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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Men State Thinking Zero
Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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Humble Market More Way
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
Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Listen Most Mostly People Successful
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Courage Encouraging Meaningful
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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Expectations Thinking Work
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
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
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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Being Fortune Quickly Right Sense Wrong
Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Full Jobs Speculate Time
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Heart People Running Thing
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
Financial storm definitely passed.
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Depression Financial Great Storm

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