Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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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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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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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Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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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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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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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
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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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The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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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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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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Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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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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