Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
BERNARD BARUCHYou 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.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
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A man can’t retire his experience.
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I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .
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I made my money by selling too soon.
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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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We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.
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I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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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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Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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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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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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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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