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.
BERNARD BARUCHThe greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged.
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Financial storm definitely passed.
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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
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It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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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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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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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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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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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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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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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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You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
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