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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

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
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
BERNARD BARUCH

Agreement Lying Race
I never lost money by turning a profit.
BERNARD BARUCH

Lost Lost Money Profit
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
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
A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year – on the condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. “Within a year,” the man explained later.
BERNARD BARUCH

Assuring Die Explain Horse Kings Later Majesty Man Philosophy
Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
BERNARD BARUCH

Fields Sticks Trying
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

Covenant Greatest Nothingness Scarcely Unexampled
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
Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
BERNARD BARUCH

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

Attention Pay President
Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
BERNARD BARUCH

Information Loss Men Power Reason Something Trying
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
BERNARD BARUCH

Equality Ships Wisdom
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
BERNARD BARUCH

Imagination Inspirational Intelligence
The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today’s earnings for the future.
BERNARD BARUCH

Age Enemy Essence

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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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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