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.
BERNARD BARUCHWe 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.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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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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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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Society can progress if men’s labors show a profit – if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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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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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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You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
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Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.
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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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Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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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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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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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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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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When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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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.
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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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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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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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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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