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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. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation."
"None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them."
"Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular."
"Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want."
"A man can't retire his experience."
"The stock market is people."
"Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction."
"I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination."
"The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself."
"We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves."
"Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts."
"Become more humble as the market goes your way."
"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
"Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come."
"Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures."
"Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them."
"If you have made a mistake cut your losses as quickly as possible."
"Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing."
"Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking."
"I made my money by selling too soon."