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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

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.
BERNARD BARUCH

Boys Keep Leader Political Time
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
BERNARD BARUCH

Men State Thinking Zero
Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
BERNARD BARUCH

Art Bucketful Courage Creativity Generous Imagination Teacher
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
The stock market is people.
BERNARD BARUCH

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

Cutting Loss Yield
Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
BERNARD BARUCH

Business Experiment Fool Government
I made my money by selling too soon.
BERNARD BARUCH

Business Finance Selling
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
BERNARD BARUCH

Hammers Nails Political
Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
BERNARD BARUCH

Inspirational Success Talking
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
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
BERNARD BARUCH

Blessing Discipline Freedom
Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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Always Hardest Investing Times
Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Forests Insider Play Tree
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
BERNARD BARUCH

Good Liars Times Timing
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

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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