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Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.

Bernard Baruch

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
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Action Error Life Motivational Private
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 trading/ investing it’s not about how much you make, but how much you don’t lose
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Investing Loses Trading
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…
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Lying Peace Salvation Work
There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
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Health Incurable Men Science Things
Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Full Jobs Speculate Time
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
Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
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Government Individuality People
Never follow the crowd.
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Inspirational Self Esteem Self Respect
No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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Anger Humiliate Men
Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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Cheerful Hats Honest Skill Success Summer Wintertime
Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters – or anyone – bringing gifts of ‘inside’ information or tips. Don’t try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.
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Barbers Best Beware Field Information Know Stick Waiter
The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England
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Believe Country Information Wall
Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Listen Most Mostly People Successful
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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Age Birthday Years
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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