Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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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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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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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Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
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Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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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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Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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The stock market is people.
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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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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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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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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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