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.
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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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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Financial storm definitely passed.
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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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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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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.
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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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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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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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Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .
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The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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A man can’t retire his experience.
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Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
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