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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

All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
BERNARD BARUCH

Investing Movement Psychology
Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
BERNARD BARUCH

Forests Insider Play Tree
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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Doors Luck Player
Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.
BERNARD BARUCH

Aged Anything Enemy Inflation Old
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 made my money by selling too soon.
BERNARD BARUCH

Business Finance Selling
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
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
Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
BERNARD BARUCH

Ethics Responsibility Tomorrow
I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .
BERNARD BARUCH

Effort Experience Son
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
You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
BERNARD BARUCH

Blow Light Shining
Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot–or if you do not know how to improve on things–then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.
BERNARD BARUCH

Change Fact Improve Knowing Situation Thing
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
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
America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
BERNARD BARUCH

Country Decision Light Path Stock

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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