Now is always the hardest time to invest.
BERNARD BARUCHWhen 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.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
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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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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot–or if you do not know how to improve on things–then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.
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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Never follow the crowd.
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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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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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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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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
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Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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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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