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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

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.
BERNARD BARUCH

Boys Keep Leader Political Time
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.
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Aged Anything Enemy Inflation Old
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
BERNARD BARUCH

Expectations Thinking Work
Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
BERNARD BARUCH

Art Bucketful Courage Creativity Generous Imagination Teacher
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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Birthday Funny Grow Up
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.
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Being Fortune Quickly Right Sense Wrong
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
Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
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Economy Increase Men Produce
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
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Fall Higher Insurance Money Pension Unemployment
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
BERNARD BARUCH

Men War Weaponry
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
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Disappointment Freedom Keepin Promise
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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Age Birthday Years
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
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
Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
BERNARD BARUCH

Attention Pay President

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.

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