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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.

Bernard Baruch

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
BERNARD BARUCH

Book Friends Giving Old
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.
BERNARD BARUCH

Change Grappled Problem Reality Truth
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.
BERNARD BARUCH

Atom Domain Evil Instead Lies Lying Taught
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Good Liars Times Timing
Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Listen Most Mostly People Successful
Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
BERNARD BARUCH

Funny Inspirational Life
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
BERNARD BARUCH

Hammers Nails Political
Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.
BERNARD BARUCH

Cities Industries Land Roots Trees
Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
BERNARD BARUCH

Deceive Destruction Ourselves Peace
I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
BERNARD BARUCH

Men Mistake Motivation Prove Skill
Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.
BERNARD BARUCH

Catchy Facts Opinion
We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.
BERNARD BARUCH

Contribute Needs Socialism
Financial storm definitely passed.
BERNARD BARUCH

Depression Financial Great Storm
Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
BERNARD BARUCH

Heart Soul Whatever
Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
BERNARD BARUCH

Inspirational Success Talking
Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
BERNARD BARUCH

Fields Sticks Trying

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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