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.
BERNARD BARUCHTo me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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 main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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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 can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.
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Never follow the crowd.
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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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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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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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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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Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot–or if you do not know how to improve on things–then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.
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Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
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Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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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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Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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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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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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I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .
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During 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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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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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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