So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.
BERNARD BARUCHWhat else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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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…
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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
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Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
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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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The stock market is people.
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Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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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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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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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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