We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
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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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
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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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We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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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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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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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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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Society can progress if men’s labors show a profit – if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
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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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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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So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.
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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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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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