Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all…
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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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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Financial storm definitely passed.
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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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Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters – or anyone – bringing gifts of ‘inside’ information or tips. Don’t try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.
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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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Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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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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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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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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Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
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Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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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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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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