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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

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
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
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Hammers Nails Political
Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don’t be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job.
BERNARD BARUCH

Calm Independent Jobs Keep Polite Success Tidy
Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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Cheerful Hats Honest Skill Success Summer Wintertime
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
BERNARD BARUCH

Equality Ships Wisdom
Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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Always Hardest Investing Times
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
Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
BERNARD BARUCH

College Little Past Philosophy
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
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
BERNARD BARUCH

Cutting Loss Yield
Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
BERNARD BARUCH

Being Fortune Quickly Right Sense Wrong
Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
BERNARD BARUCH

Funny Inspirational Life
Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Forests Insider Play Tree
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
BERNARD BARUCH

Action Error Life Motivational Private
You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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Blow Light Shining

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

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