Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
BERNARD BARUCHBeware 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.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
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Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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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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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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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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Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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I made my money by selling too soon.
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You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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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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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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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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