We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
BERNARD BARUCH“The king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly.” My philosophy is like that man’s. I take the long-range view.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time… When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
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Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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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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I 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.
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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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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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You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don’t be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job.
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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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