In trading/ investing it’s not about how much you make, but how much you don’t lose
BERNARD BARUCHWhatever 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.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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The stock market is people.
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Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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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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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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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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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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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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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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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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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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A 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.
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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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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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Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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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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