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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

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
Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time… When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
BERNARD BARUCH

Believe Mistaken Something Two Years
I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Lost Lost Money Profit
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
BERNARD BARUCH

Disarmament Past Peace Years
No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
BERNARD BARUCH

Anger Humiliate Men
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.
BERNARD BARUCH

Beggar Belief Boys Dangerous Illusion Shoeshine
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.
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Ago Clothes Grave Hundred People Some Years Young
Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.
BERNARD BARUCH

Catchy Facts Opinion
What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
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Country Made Record Reliance Sturdy
Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
BERNARD BARUCH

Funny Inspirational Life
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
BERNARD BARUCH

Age Birthday Years
I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
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Giving Keep Middle Moving Top
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Imagination Inspirational Intelligence
Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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Cheerful Hats Honest Skill Success Summer Wintertime
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
It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
BERNARD BARUCH

Difficult Knows Sells

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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