Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
BERNARD BARUCHGovernment 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.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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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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Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with.
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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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“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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Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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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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Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged.
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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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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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Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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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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I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…
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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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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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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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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
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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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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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