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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

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
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.
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Change Fact Improve Knowing Situation Thing
When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
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Beggar Belief Boys Dangerous Illusion Shoeshine
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Men Power Reasoning
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Business Future Men
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.
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Men Mistake Motivation Prove Skill
You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
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Deceive Entitled Fact Like Situation
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.
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Covenant Greatest Nothingness Scarcely Unexampled
Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Forests Insider Play Tree
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. .
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Effort Experience Son
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Agreement Lying Race
Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Listen Most Mostly People Successful
No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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Anger Humiliate Men
The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England
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Believe Country Information Wall
Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
BERNARD BARUCH

Government Individuality People

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.

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