What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
BERNARD BARUCHLet us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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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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I never lost money by turning a profit.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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The stock market is people.
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Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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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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Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
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