Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
BERNARD BARUCHPeace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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.
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Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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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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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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“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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We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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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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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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A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year – on the condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. “Within a year,” the man explained later.
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters – or anyone – bringing gifts of ‘inside’ information or tips. Don’t try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.
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Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
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Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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I made my money by selling too soon.
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