Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
BERNARD BARUCHEven 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.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England
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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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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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Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.
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I made my money by selling too soon.
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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, the realities that must be grappled with.
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The stock market is people.
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Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. … The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
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Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today’s earnings for the future.
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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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