Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
BERNARD BARUCHIf a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Recipe 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.
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A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year – on the condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. “Within a year,” the man explained later.
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Whatever 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.
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Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
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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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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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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .
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The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today’s earnings for the future.
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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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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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I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.
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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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So 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.
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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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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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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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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 play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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