Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
BERNARD BARUCHIncreased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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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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Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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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 pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Don’t pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.
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When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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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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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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There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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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 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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