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 BARUCHRecipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don’t be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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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.
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The stock market is people.
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Never follow the crowd.
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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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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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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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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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Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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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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