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Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.

Bernard Baruch

We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
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Bridges Crosses Economy
Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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Fields Sticks Trying
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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Inspirational Jobs Work
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
BERNARD BARUCH

Equality Ships Wisdom
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Hammers Nails Political
Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
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Business Experiment Fool Government
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Good Liars Times Timing
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Disappointment Freedom Keepin Promise
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Courage Encouraging Meaningful
Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot–or if you do not know how to improve on things–then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.
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Change Fact Improve Knowing Situation Thing
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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Covenant Greatest Nothingness Scarcely Unexampled
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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Book Friends Giving Old
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.
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Aged Anything Enemy Inflation Old
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
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Character Technology Thinking
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Business Future Men
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.
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Atom Domain Evil Instead Lies Lying Taught
Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Inspirational Leadership Teacher
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
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.
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Change Grappled Problem Reality Truth
All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Investing Movement Psychology
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Heart People Running Thing
Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.
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Anybody Consciousness Failure Mistake Nothing
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.
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Boys Keep Leader Political Time
Financial storm definitely passed.
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Depression Financial Great Storm
Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
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Government Individuality People
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.
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Friends Loyal Newspaper Pity Prejudice Quick Read
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.
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Contribute Needs Socialism

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