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.
BERNARD BARUCHNobody ever lost money taking a profit
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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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You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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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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Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
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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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Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged.
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Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
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Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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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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“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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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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Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with.
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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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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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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. … The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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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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Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.
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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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We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
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