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.
BERNARD BARUCHFinancial storm definitely passed.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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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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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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Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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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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Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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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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The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today’s earnings for the future.
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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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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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