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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.

Bernard Baruch

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Bernard Baruch
Age: 94 †
Born: 1870
Born: August 19
Died: 1965
Died: June 20
Banker
Economist
Entrepreneur
Financier
Politician
Stockbroker
Trader
Camden
South Carolina
Bernard M. Baruch
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The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today's earnings for the future. 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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America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path...
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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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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
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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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Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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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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Never play tips from insiders. They can't see the forest for the trees.
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Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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