If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
BERNARD BARUCHAlways do one thing less than you think you can do.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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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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We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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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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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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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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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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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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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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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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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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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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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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Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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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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Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Financial storm definitely passed.
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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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“The king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly.” My philosophy is like that man’s. I take the long-range view.
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During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
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Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
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In trading/ investing it’s not about how much you make, but how much you don’t lose
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