All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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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When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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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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We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.
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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.
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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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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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It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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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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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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Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
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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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