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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.

Bernard Baruch

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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Always Hope Investing Men Soaring Two
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Communication Ideas Important
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Cutting Loss Yield
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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Doors Luck Player
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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Expectations Thinking Work
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
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
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Experience Man Numbers Retirement Teacher
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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Business Money Saving
I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Lost Lost Money Profit
Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
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Art Bucketful Courage Creativity Generous Imagination Teacher
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
The path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom – the clothing of the grave – that some people believe she is already fitted for.
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Ago Clothes Grave Hundred People Some Years Young
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Heart People Running Thing
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
What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
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Country Made Record Reliance Sturdy
Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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Always Hardest Investing Times

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