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…
BERNARD BARUCHThe longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England
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Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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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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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
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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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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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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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“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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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.
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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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