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.
BERNARD BARUCHMillions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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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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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
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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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Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
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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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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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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 ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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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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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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Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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