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

Bernard Baruch

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
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Agreement Lying Race
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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Age Birthday Years
Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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Bears Investment Parks
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Courage Encouraging Meaningful
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
Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time… When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
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Believe Mistaken Something Two Years
All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Investing Movement Psychology
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
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Brain Passion Prejudice Sharp
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
Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.
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Anybody Consciousness Failure Mistake Nothing
Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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Heart Soul Whatever
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
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
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
The stock market is people.
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Market People Stock
You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
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Blame Complaining Overcoming
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
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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Character Technology Thinking
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
Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Forests Insider Play Tree
Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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Agreement Sanction Secure Tranquil Understanding
Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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College Little Past Philosophy
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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Deceive Entitled Fact Like Situation
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Business Future Men
In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world’s greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.
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Covenant Greatest Nothingness Scarcely Unexampled

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