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 BARUCHWhat else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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…
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I made my money by selling too soon.
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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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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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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When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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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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Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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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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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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The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars.
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Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
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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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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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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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Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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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, the realities that must be grappled with.
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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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Never follow the crowd.
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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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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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