Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
BERNARD BARUCHDon’t pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
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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.
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Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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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.
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The stock market is people.
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No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world’s greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.
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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
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Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
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I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .
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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.
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I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
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Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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“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.
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Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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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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We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
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Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
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Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
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