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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

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

Assuring Die Explain Horse Kings Later Majesty Man Philosophy
Financial storm definitely passed.
BERNARD BARUCH

Depression Financial Great Storm
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
Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
BERNARD BARUCH

Heart Soul Whatever
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
Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
BERNARD BARUCH

Cheerful Hats Honest Skill Success Summer Wintertime
Become more humble as the market goes your way.
BERNARD BARUCH

Humble Market More Way
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
BERNARD BARUCH

Equality Ships Wisdom
When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
BERNARD BARUCH

Country News Observes Pages
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
BERNARD BARUCH

Funny Humor Men
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
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
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
BERNARD BARUCH

Book Friends Giving Old
The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today’s earnings for the future.
BERNARD BARUCH

Age Enemy Essence
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Good Liars Times Timing
In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world’s greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.
BERNARD BARUCH

Covenant Greatest Nothingness Scarcely Unexampled
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Cutting Loss Yield
Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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Always Hardest Investing Times
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
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Disappointment Freedom Keepin Promise
Society can progress if men’s labors show a profit – if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
BERNARD BARUCH

Loss Men Produce Profit Progress Show Yield
You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
BERNARD BARUCH

Communism Government Important Political Struggle
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
BERNARD BARUCH

Courage Encouraging Meaningful
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
I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Lost Lost Money Profit
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
BERNARD BARUCH

Fall Higher Insurance Money Pension Unemployment
Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
BERNARD BARUCH

Business Experiment Fool Government

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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