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I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.

Bernard Baruch

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.
BERNARD BARUCH

Being Fortune Quickly Right Sense Wrong
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
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
Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Deceive Destruction Ourselves Peace
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.
BERNARD BARUCH

Aged Anything Enemy Inflation Old
A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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Ark Country Dangerous Favor Future Repudiate
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
A man can’t retire his experience.
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Ciphers Experience Retirement
Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Full Jobs Speculate Time
Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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College Little Past Philosophy
The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today’s earnings for the future.
BERNARD BARUCH

Age Enemy Essence
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
Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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Answers Belief Humility
“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 stock market is people.
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Market People Stock
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

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