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. .
BERNARD BARUCHThe stock market is people.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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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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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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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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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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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Recipe 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.
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Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.
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Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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