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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Bernard Baruch

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
BERNARD BARUCH

Approach Problem Views
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with.
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Change Grappled Problem Reality Truth
I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
BERNARD BARUCH

Learn Men Observation
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.
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Believe Mistaken Something Two Years
I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Lost Lost Money Profit
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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Cold Deceived Midst Today War
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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Expectations Thinking Work
Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Attention Pay President
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
BERNARD BARUCH

Funny Humor Men
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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Men State Thinking Zero
When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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Country News Observes Pages
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
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
Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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Humble Market More Way
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
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
BERNARD BARUCH

Character Technology Thinking

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