No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
BERNARD BARUCHNever play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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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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Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
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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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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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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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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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Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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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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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.
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Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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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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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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