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.
BERNARD BARUCHA 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.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters – or anyone – bringing gifts of ‘inside’ information or tips. Don’t try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .
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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
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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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Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
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Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
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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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