We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
BERNARD BARUCHMillions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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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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Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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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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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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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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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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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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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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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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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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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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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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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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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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We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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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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Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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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…
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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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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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