Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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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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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We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.
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Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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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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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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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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Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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