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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.

Bernard Baruch

Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don’t be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job.
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Calm Independent Jobs Keep Polite Success Tidy
Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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Fields Sticks Trying
When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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Country News Observes Pages
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
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
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
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
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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Business Money Saving
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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Expectations Thinking Work
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
Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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Cheerful Hats Honest Skill Success Summer Wintertime
“The king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly.” My philosophy is like that man’s. I take the long-range view.
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Die Furthermore Horse King Learn Philosophy
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
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Cutting Loss Yield
It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Difficult Knows Sells
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.
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Atom Domain Evil Instead Lies Lying Taught

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