The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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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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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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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Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
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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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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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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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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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Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
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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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“The king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly.” My philosophy is like that man’s. I take the long-range view.
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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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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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Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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In trading/ investing it’s not about how much you make, but how much you don’t lose
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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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When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
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A man can’t retire his experience.
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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
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When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
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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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