Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
BERNARD BARUCHAmerica has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
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Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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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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Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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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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Never follow the crowd.
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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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It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.
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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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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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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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