Beware 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.
BERNARD BARUCHIf the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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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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When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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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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The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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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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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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Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
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None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. … The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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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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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.
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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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Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Financial storm definitely passed.
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Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.
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