Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
BERNARD BARUCHMaking a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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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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Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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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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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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We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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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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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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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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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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Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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