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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.

Bernard Baruch

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
BERNARD BARUCH

Communication Ideas Important
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 men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
BERNARD BARUCH

Always Hope Investing Men Soaring Two
I never lost money by turning a profit.
BERNARD BARUCH

Lost Lost Money Profit
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
Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
BERNARD BARUCH

College Little Past Philosophy
Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
BERNARD BARUCH

Fields Sticks Trying
Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all…
BERNARD BARUCH

Knowing Passion Thinking
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
BERNARD BARUCH

Hammers Nails Political
It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
BERNARD BARUCH

Difficult Knows Sells
America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
BERNARD BARUCH

Believe Maturity Path Years
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
BERNARD BARUCH

Disappointment Freedom Keepin Promise
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
BERNARD BARUCH

Cold Deceived Midst Today War
You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
BERNARD BARUCH

Communism Government Important Political Struggle
Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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Humble Market More Way
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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