Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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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I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
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You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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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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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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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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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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Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
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To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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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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The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England
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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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Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
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Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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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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No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot–or if you do not know how to improve on things–then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.
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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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Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
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Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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I made my money by selling too soon.
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Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
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Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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