“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.
BERNARD BARUCHA speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all…
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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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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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When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
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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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It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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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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Never follow the crowd.
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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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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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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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Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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