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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

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

Giving Keep Middle Moving Top
“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
You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
BERNARD BARUCH

Blow Light Shining
Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
BERNARD BARUCH

Agreement Sanction Secure Tranquil Understanding
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
BERNARD BARUCH

Doors Luck Player
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
In trading/ investing it’s not about how much you make, but how much you don’t lose
BERNARD BARUCH

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

Cutting Loss Yield
The stock market is people.
BERNARD BARUCH

Market People Stock
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
BERNARD BARUCH

Information Men Power Reasoning
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
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
We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
BERNARD BARUCH

Bridges Crosses Economy
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…
BERNARD BARUCH

Lying Peace Salvation Work
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
BERNARD BARUCH

Inspirational Jobs Work
A man can’t retire his experience.
BERNARD BARUCH

Ciphers Experience Retirement

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.

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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.

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