The stock market is people.
BERNARD BARUCHThe stock market is people.
BERNARD BARUCHIn 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.
BERNARD BARUCHThe ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
BERNARD BARUCHBe quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
BERNARD BARUCHSo 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.
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.
BERNARD BARUCHWhatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
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.
BERNARD BARUCHNever answer a critic, unless he’s right.
BERNARD BARUCHWe grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
BERNARD BARUCHIf a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
BERNARD BARUCHWhat else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
BERNARD BARUCHAgriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.
BERNARD BARUCHNever follow the crowd.
BERNARD BARUCHI made my money by selling too soon.
BERNARD BARUCHWhatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged.
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