Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
BERNARD BARUCHBears don’t live on Park Avenue.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
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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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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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Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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Never follow the crowd.
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To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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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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Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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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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There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
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Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.
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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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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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