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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

Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
BERNARD BARUCH

Attention Pay President
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
Never follow the crowd.
BERNARD BARUCH

Inspirational Self Esteem Self Respect
I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
BERNARD BARUCH

Giving Keep Middle Moving Top
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
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
I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
BERNARD BARUCH

Learn Men Observation
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
BERNARD BARUCH

Business Future Men
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
BERNARD BARUCH

Disarmament Past Peace Years
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
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
BERNARD BARUCH

Brain Passion Prejudice Sharp
Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
BERNARD BARUCH

Funny Inspirational Life
A man can’t retire his experience.
BERNARD BARUCH

Ciphers Experience Retirement
Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
BERNARD BARUCH

Cheerful Hats Honest Skill Success Summer Wintertime
You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
BERNARD BARUCH

Communism Government Important Political Struggle
I never lost money by turning a profit.
BERNARD BARUCH

Lost Lost Money Profit

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