If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
BERNARD BARUCHBuy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.
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Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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The stock market is people.
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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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Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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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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Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
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When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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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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We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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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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Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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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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