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…
BERNARD BARUCHWhatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Don’t pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.
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Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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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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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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Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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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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Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
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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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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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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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