Bernard Baruch on boys
Bernard Baruch107 quotes“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.”
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The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today’s earnings for the future.
Bernard BaruchBernard Baruch If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
Bernard BaruchBernard Baruch Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.
Bernard BaruchBernard Baruch Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
Bernard BaruchBernard Baruch 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 BaruchBernard Baruch Financial storm definitely passed.
Bernard BaruchBernard Baruch 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.
Bernard BaruchBernard Baruch Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
Bernard BaruchBernard Baruch Become more humble as the market goes your way.
Bernard BaruchBernard Baruch No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
Bernard BaruchBernard Baruch Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.
Bernard BaruchBernard Baruch A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year – on the condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. “Within a year,” the man explained later.
Bernard BaruchBernard Baruch Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
Bernard BaruchBernard Baruch Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars.
Bernard BaruchBernard Baruch Now is always the hardest time to invest.
Bernard BaruchBernard Baruch Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
Bernard BaruchBernard Baruch
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They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on boys
I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
Bill NighyBill Nighy When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd – the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.
BjorkBjork That boy don’t know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don’t know the meaning of a lot of words.
Bobby BowdenBobby Bowden Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be hung. Others, less irritable, think that gently chloroforming them would seem more humane.
Bess Streeter AldrichBess Streeter Aldrich I have the brain of a German Shepherd and the body of a 16-year-old boy; they’re both in my car and I want you to see them
Bob SagetBob Saget Well, a good ole boy is somebody that rides around in a pick-up truck – which I do – and drinks beer and puts ’em in a litter bag.
Billy CarterBilly Carter Any player coming to Spurs whether he’s a big signing or just a ground staff boy must be dedicated to the game and to the club.
Bill NicholsBill Nichols In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.
Benjamin E. MaysBenjamin E. Mays
