Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
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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Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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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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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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When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
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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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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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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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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 pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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A man can’t retire his experience.
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