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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

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
Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don’t be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job.
BERNARD BARUCH

Calm Independent Jobs Keep Polite Success Tidy
“The king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly.” My philosophy is like that man’s. I take the long-range view.
BERNARD BARUCH

Die Furthermore Horse King Learn Philosophy
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Communication Ideas Important
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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Book Friends Giving Old
Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
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Business Experiment Fool Government
America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
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Country Decision Light Path Stock
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Heart People Running Thing
Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Deceive Destruction Ourselves Peace
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Men Power Reasoning
We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Choices Dead Quick Today
We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
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Bridges Crosses Economy
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
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Good Liars Times Timing
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.
BERNARD BARUCH

Deceive Entitled Fact Like Situation
Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Listen Most Mostly People Successful

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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