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.
BERNARD BARUCHEven 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.
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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Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year – on the condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. “Within a year,” the man explained later.
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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.
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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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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Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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Never follow the crowd.
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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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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.
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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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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
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We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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A man can’t retire his experience.
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