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…
BERNARD BARUCHNever play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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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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Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
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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 main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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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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Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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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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Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
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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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Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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