Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
BERNARD BARUCHTwo things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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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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When 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.
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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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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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Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters – or anyone – bringing gifts of ‘inside’ information or tips. Don’t try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.
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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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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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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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Never follow the crowd.
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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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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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