Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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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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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In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world’s greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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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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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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Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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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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Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.
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Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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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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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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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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I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…
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I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
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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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Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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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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The stock market is people.
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The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England
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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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Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
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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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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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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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