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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
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"In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms."

"After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation."

"Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes."

"After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories."

"I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives."

"I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled."

"What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers."

"The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions."

"As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin."
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