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.
BERNARD BARUCHNever follow the crowd.
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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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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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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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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It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time… When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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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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There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
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Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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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.
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Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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