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.
BERNARD BARUCHApproach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.
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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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I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
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Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
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Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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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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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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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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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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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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Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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