“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.
BERNARD BARUCHYou may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.
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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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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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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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Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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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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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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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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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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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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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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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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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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