When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
BERNARD BARUCHThe essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today’s earnings for the future.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world’s greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.
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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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Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Financial storm definitely passed.
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Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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Society can progress if men’s labors show a profit – if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don’t be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job.
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Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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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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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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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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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
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Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.
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Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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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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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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