Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
BERNARD BARUCHThe essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today’s earnings for the future.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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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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Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
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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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Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars.
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Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.
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None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. … The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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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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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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