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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Bernard Baruch

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.
BERNARD BARUCH

Boys Keep Leader Political Time
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
BERNARD BARUCH

Blessing Discipline Freedom
Society can progress if men’s labors show a profit – if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
BERNARD BARUCH

Loss Men Produce Profit Progress Show Yield
I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .
BERNARD BARUCH

Effort Experience Son
Don’t pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.
BERNARD BARUCH

Friends Loyal Newspaper Pity Prejudice Quick Read
You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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Blow Light Shining
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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Expectations Thinking Work
Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
BERNARD BARUCH

Funny Inspirational Life
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
BERNARD BARUCH

Cutting Loss Yield
We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
BERNARD BARUCH

Bridges Crosses Economy
I made my money by selling too soon.
BERNARD BARUCH

Business Finance Selling
So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.
BERNARD BARUCH

Available Detector Fingerprint Hate Instruments Lying Men Shiver Washing
A man can’t retire his experience.
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Ciphers Experience Retirement
It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
BERNARD BARUCH

Difficult Knows Sells
Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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Agreement Sanction Secure Tranquil Understanding
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.
BERNARD BARUCH

Art Disappointment Lying

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