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.
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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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Never follow the crowd.
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Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
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Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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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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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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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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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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Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars.
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Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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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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Financial storm definitely passed.
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Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters – or anyone – bringing gifts of ‘inside’ information or tips. Don’t try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.
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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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Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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