I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
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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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Financial storm definitely passed.
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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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Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
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Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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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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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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“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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The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today’s earnings for the future.
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A man can’t retire his experience.
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When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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