No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
BERNARD BARUCHI have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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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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No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…
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Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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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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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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What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
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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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Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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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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Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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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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