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.
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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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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Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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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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To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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A man can’t retire his experience.
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We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
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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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Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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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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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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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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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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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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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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