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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

Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
BERNARD BARUCH

Doors Luck Player
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
We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Choices Dead Quick Today
Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
BERNARD BARUCH

Deceive Destruction Ourselves Peace
Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
BERNARD BARUCH

College Little Past Philosophy
A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year – on the condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. “Within a year,” the man explained later.
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Assuring Die Explain Horse Kings Later Majesty Man Philosophy
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Men Power Reasoning
Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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Always Hardest Investing Times
Never follow the crowd.
BERNARD BARUCH

Inspirational Self Esteem Self Respect
Society can progress if men’s labors show a profit – if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
BERNARD BARUCH

Loss Men Produce Profit Progress Show Yield
Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
BERNARD BARUCH

Funny Inspirational Life
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
BERNARD BARUCH

Cutting Loss Yield
A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
BERNARD BARUCH

Ark Country Dangerous Favor Future Repudiate
You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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Blow Light Shining
Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars.
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Bottom Business Done Liars Trying
In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world’s greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.
BERNARD BARUCH

Covenant Greatest Nothingness Scarcely Unexampled

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