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.
BERNARD BARUCHThe ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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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In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world’s greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.
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The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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Never follow the crowd.
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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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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged.
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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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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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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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Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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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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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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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 grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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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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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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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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Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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