Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
BERNARD BARUCHWhatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
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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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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
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I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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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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The stock market is people.
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Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
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Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars.
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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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Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
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