In 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.
BERNARD BARUCHPeace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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A man can’t retire his experience.
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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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Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot–or if you do not know how to improve on things–then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.
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Financial storm definitely passed.
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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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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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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.
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Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
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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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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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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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Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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