Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
BERNARD BARUCHUnless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
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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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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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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We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.
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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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The path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom – the clothing of the grave – that some people believe she is already fitted for.
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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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Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot–or if you do not know how to improve on things–then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.
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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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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 essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today’s earnings for the future.
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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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A man can’t retire his experience.
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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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I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
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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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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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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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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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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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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.
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Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…
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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 terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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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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