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.
BERNARD BARUCHWhatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
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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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What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
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I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
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Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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Never follow the crowd.
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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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The path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom – the clothing of the grave – that some people believe she is already fitted for.
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You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
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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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The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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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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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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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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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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We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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