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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

We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.
BERNARD BARUCH

Contribute Needs Socialism
Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged.
BERNARD BARUCH

Heart Love Mistake Task Undertake
Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars.
BERNARD BARUCH

Bottom Business Done Liars Trying
None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. … The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
BERNARD BARUCH

Art Disappointment Lying
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
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
BERNARD BARUCH

Cutting Loss Yield
All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Investing Movement Psychology
“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
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
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
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
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.
BERNARD BARUCH

Men Mistake Motivation Prove Skill
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Men Power Reasoning
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.
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Atom Domain Evil Instead Lies Lying Taught
I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
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Learn Men Observation
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

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