Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
BERNARD BARUCHAll economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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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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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
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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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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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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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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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Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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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 essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today’s earnings for the future.
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Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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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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