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.
BERNARD BARUCHAlthough the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.
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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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Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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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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Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars.
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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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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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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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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.
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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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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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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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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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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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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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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Financial storm definitely passed.
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Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
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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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We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
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Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time… When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
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Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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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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