Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.
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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Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time… When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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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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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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When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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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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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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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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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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