Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
BERNARD BARUCHIn 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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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 terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
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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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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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Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with.
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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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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
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Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England
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