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We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

Bernard Baruch

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
Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.
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Cities Industries Land Roots Trees
A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year – on the condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. “Within a year,” the man explained later.
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Assuring Die Explain Horse Kings Later Majesty Man Philosophy
It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Difficult Knows Sells
Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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Inspirational Success Talking
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
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
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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Age Birthday Years
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
Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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College Little Past Philosophy
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
Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Loss Men Power Reason Something Trying
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
None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. … The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Art Disappointment Lying
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Disappointment Freedom Keepin Promise
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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Expectations Thinking Work

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