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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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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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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Financial storm definitely passed.
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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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When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world’s greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.
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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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