Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.
BERNARD BARUCHNever pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.
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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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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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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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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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You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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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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Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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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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Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
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Don’t pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.
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