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.
BERNARD BARUCHNever play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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The stock market is people.
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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don’t be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job.
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America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
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Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Never follow the crowd.
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Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
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Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
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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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