I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
BERNARD BARUCHNever play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
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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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I made my money by selling too soon.
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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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Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
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We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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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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Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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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.
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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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