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Bernard Baruch

Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Disappointment Freedom Keepin Promise
The stock market is people.
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Market People Stock
We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
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Bridges Crosses Economy
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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Cold Shooting War
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
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.
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Loss Men Produce Profit Progress Show Yield
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
Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Forests Insider Play Tree
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Hammers Nails Political
The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England
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Believe Country Information Wall
In trading/ investing it’s not about how much you make, but how much you don’t lose
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Investing Loses Trading
I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
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Learn Men Observation
Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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Answers Belief Humility
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Imagination Inspirational Intelligence
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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Available Detector Fingerprint Hate Instruments Lying Men Shiver Washing
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

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