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What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?

Bernard Baruch

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
BERNARD BARUCH

Learn Men Observation
I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
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Giving Keep Middle Moving Top
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
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
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Blessing Discipline Freedom
I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Lost Lost Money Profit
Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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Heart Soul Whatever
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.
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Ago Clothes Grave Hundred People Some Years Young
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
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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Men War Weaponry
We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
BERNARD BARUCH

Bridges Crosses Economy
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
Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
BERNARD BARUCH

Answers Belief Humility
America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
BERNARD BARUCH

Believe Maturity Path Years
I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
BERNARD BARUCH

Men Mistake Motivation Prove Skill
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
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

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