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When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.

Bernard Baruch

There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
BERNARD BARUCH

Health Incurable Men Science Things
Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
BERNARD BARUCH

Forests Insider Play Tree
You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
BERNARD BARUCH

Blow Light Shining
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
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
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
Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
BERNARD BARUCH

Economy Increase Men Produce
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
BERNARD BARUCH

Cold Deceived Midst Today War
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
Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.
BERNARD BARUCH

Aged Anything Enemy Inflation Old
When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
BERNARD BARUCH

Beggar Belief Boys Dangerous Illusion Shoeshine
Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
BERNARD BARUCH

People Praise Quick
A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
BERNARD BARUCH

Ark Country Dangerous Favor Future Repudiate
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
BERNARD BARUCH

Business Money Saving
Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
BERNARD BARUCH

Deceive Destruction Ourselves Peace
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
BERNARD BARUCH

Cold Shooting War

When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.

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