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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

Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time… When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
BERNARD BARUCH

Believe Mistaken Something Two Years
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.
BERNARD BARUCH

Atom Domain Evil Instead Lies Lying Taught
Now is always the hardest time to invest.
BERNARD BARUCH

Always Hardest Investing Times
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
BERNARD BARUCH

Men War Weaponry
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
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
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%.
BERNARD BARUCH

Giving Keep Middle Moving Top
Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters – or anyone – bringing gifts of ‘inside’ information or tips. Don’t try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.
BERNARD BARUCH

Barbers Best Beware Field Information Know Stick Waiter
Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
BERNARD BARUCH

Full Jobs Speculate Time
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
BERNARD BARUCH

Doors Luck Player
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.
BERNARD BARUCH

Anybody Consciousness Failure Mistake Nothing
I never lost money by turning a profit.
BERNARD BARUCH

Lost Lost Money Profit
It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
BERNARD BARUCH

Difficult Knows Sells
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
BERNARD BARUCH

Expectations Thinking Work
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

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.

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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.

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