Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
BERNARD BARUCHScience 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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Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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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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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 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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Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.
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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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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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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
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To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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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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Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars.
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Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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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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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 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.
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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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We 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.
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Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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