I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
BERNARD BARUCHBears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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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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 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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Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with.
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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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You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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Financial storm definitely passed.
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Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
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You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
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I made my money by selling too soon.
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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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We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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“The king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly.” My philosophy is like that man’s. I take the long-range view.
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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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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
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None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. … The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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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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America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
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Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.
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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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No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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