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…
BERNARD BARUCHDuring my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
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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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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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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Financial storm definitely passed.
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Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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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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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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You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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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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When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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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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Society can progress if men’s labors show a profit – if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
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Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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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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There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today’s earnings for the future.
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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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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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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Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
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Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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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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