The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
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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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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Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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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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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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I made my money by selling too soon.
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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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Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
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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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Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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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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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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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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It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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