The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England
BERNARD BARUCHNo man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot–or if you do not know how to improve on things–then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.
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Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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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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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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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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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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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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Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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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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I never lost money by turning a profit.
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
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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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Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
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Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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Don’t pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.
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Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time… When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
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