Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
BERNARD BARUCHPeace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
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Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.
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I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
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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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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
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Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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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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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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We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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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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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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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
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