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.
BERNARD BARUCHNever play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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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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Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged.
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Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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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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Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.
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Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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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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The stock market is people.
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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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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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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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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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Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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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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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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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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