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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

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

Expectations Thinking Work
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
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.
BERNARD BARUCH

Change Grappled Problem Reality Truth
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
Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
BERNARD BARUCH

Always Hope Investing Men Soaring Two
Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
BERNARD BARUCH

Bears Investment Parks
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.
BERNARD BARUCH

Ago Clothes Grave Hundred People Some Years Young
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
A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
BERNARD BARUCH

Ark Country Dangerous Favor Future Repudiate
Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
BERNARD BARUCH

Cheerful Hats Honest Skill Success Summer Wintertime
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
BERNARD BARUCH

Experience Man Numbers Retirement Teacher
Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all…
BERNARD BARUCH

Knowing Passion Thinking
No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
BERNARD BARUCH

Anger Humiliate Men
Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
BERNARD BARUCH

Funny Inspirational Life
You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
BERNARD BARUCH

Blow Light Shining

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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