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Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.

Bernard Baruch

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
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
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Disarmament Past Peace Years
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Good Liars Times Timing
Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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Answers Belief Humility
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Men Power Reasoning
You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
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Blame Complaining Overcoming
Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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Funny Inspirational Life
I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
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Men Mistake Motivation Prove Skill
Society can progress if men’s labors show a profit – if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
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Loss Men Produce Profit Progress Show Yield
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
Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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Heart Soul Whatever
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
In trading/ investing it’s not about how much you make, but how much you don’t lose
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Investing Loses Trading
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Communication Ideas Important
“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
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Hammers Nails Political

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