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Never follow the crowd.

Bernard Baruch

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
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Always Hope Investing Men Soaring Two
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Heart People Running Thing
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Business Future Men
I made my money by selling too soon.
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Business Finance Selling
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Communication Ideas Important
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
BERNARD BARUCH

Equality Ships Wisdom
Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.
BERNARD BARUCH

Cities Industries Land Roots Trees
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.
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Available Detector Fingerprint Hate Instruments Lying Men Shiver Washing
Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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Always Hardest Investing Times
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
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Approach Problem Views
The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England
BERNARD BARUCH

Believe Country Information Wall
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Hammers Nails Political
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.
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Brain Passion Prejudice Sharp
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
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
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Disarmament Past Peace Years
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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Men State Thinking Zero

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