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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Bernard Baruch

I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .
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Effort Experience Son
Financial storm definitely passed.
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Depression Financial Great Storm
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Men Power Reasoning
A man can’t retire his experience.
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Ciphers Experience Retirement
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
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
Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Listen Most Mostly People Successful
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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Equality Ships Wisdom
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Communication Ideas Important
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
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
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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Funny Humor Men
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Destruction Peace War World
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
Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Full Jobs Speculate Time
We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Choices Dead Quick Today

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