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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

Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
BERNARD BARUCH

Cheerful Hats Honest Skill Success Summer Wintertime
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.
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Atom Domain Evil Instead Lies Lying Taught
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
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.
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Being Fortune Quickly Right Sense Wrong
Never follow the crowd.
BERNARD BARUCH

Inspirational Self Esteem Self Respect
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
BERNARD BARUCH

Believe Country Information Wall
The path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom – the clothing of the grave – that some people believe she is already fitted for.
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Ago Clothes Grave Hundred People Some Years Young
Become more humble as the market goes your way.
BERNARD BARUCH

Humble Market More Way
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

Available Detector Fingerprint Hate Instruments Lying Men Shiver Washing
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.
BERNARD BARUCH

Ethics Responsibility Tomorrow
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
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
BERNARD BARUCH

Inspirational Jobs Work
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
BERNARD BARUCH

Cold Deceived Midst Today War
America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
BERNARD BARUCH

Country Decision Light Path Stock
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
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
BERNARD BARUCH

Destruction Peace War World

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