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.
BERNARD BARUCHNever pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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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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In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world’s greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.
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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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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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When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
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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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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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Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged.
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Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
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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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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.
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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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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.
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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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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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Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
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Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
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Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
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A man can’t retire his experience.
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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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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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