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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

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

Cutting Loss Yield
I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .
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Effort Experience Son
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
Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Forests Insider Play Tree
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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Ethics Responsibility Tomorrow
I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Lost Lost Money Profit
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
BERNARD BARUCH

Book Friends Giving Old
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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Inspirational Jobs Work
Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don’t be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job.
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Calm Independent Jobs Keep Polite Success Tidy
Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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Cheerful Hats Honest Skill Success Summer Wintertime
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
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
BERNARD BARUCH

Equality Ships Wisdom
Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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People Praise Quick
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 pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Attention Pay President
Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Information Loss Men Power Reason Something Trying
Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
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Government Individuality People
Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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College Little Past Philosophy
It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Difficult Knows Sells
Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Inspirational Leadership Teacher
There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
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Health Incurable Men Science Things
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
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Hammers Nails Political
The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today’s earnings for the future.
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Age Enemy Essence
Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Deceive Destruction Ourselves Peace
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
Financial storm definitely passed.
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Depression Financial Great Storm

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