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In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world’s greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.

Bernard Baruch

Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
BERNARD BARUCH

Forests Insider Play Tree
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
“The king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly.” My philosophy is like that man’s. I take the long-range view.
BERNARD BARUCH

Die Furthermore Horse King Learn Philosophy
Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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Fields Sticks Trying
A man can’t retire his experience.
BERNARD BARUCH

Ciphers Experience Retirement
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
BERNARD BARUCH

Disappointment Freedom Keepin Promise
Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged.
BERNARD BARUCH

Heart Love Mistake Task Undertake
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
BERNARD BARUCH

Cold Shooting War
Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
BERNARD BARUCH

Cheerful Hats Honest Skill Success Summer Wintertime
Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all…
BERNARD BARUCH

Knowing Passion Thinking
The stock market is people.
BERNARD BARUCH

Market People Stock
You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
BERNARD BARUCH

Blow Light Shining
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.
BERNARD BARUCH

Ago Clothes Grave Hundred People Some Years Young
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

Always Hope Investing Men Soaring Two
Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
BERNARD BARUCH

Inspirational Success Talking
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

In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world’s greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.

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