Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
BERNARD BARUCHRecipe 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.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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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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The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today’s earnings for the future.
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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.
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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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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 grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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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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I made my money by selling too soon.
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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
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When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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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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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.
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You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
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In trading/ investing it’s not about how much you make, but how much you don’t lose
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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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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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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Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…
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The stock market is people.
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