When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
BERNARD BARUCHI’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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.
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It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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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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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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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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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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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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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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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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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.
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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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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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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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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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A man can’t retire his experience.
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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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Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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I never lost money by turning a profit.
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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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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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