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.
BERNARD BARUCHThere is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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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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You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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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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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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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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Don’t pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.
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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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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
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Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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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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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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