We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
BERNARD BARUCHDon’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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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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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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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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Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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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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Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.
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Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.
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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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