We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
BERNARD BARUCHOur problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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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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It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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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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Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
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Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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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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Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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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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You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
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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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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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