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.
BERNARD BARUCHNobody ever lost money taking a profit
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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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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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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Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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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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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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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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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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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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The path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom – the clothing of the grave – that some people believe she is already fitted for.
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Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.
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A man can’t retire his experience.
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You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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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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