The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
BERNARD BARUCHWhatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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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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Society can progress if men’s labors show a profit – if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
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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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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.
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To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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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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I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
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You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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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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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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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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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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