The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
BERNARD BARUCHIncreased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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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, the realities that must be grappled with.
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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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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
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Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars.
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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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Don’t pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.
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I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
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Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
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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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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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