The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today’s earnings for the future.
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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Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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In trading/ investing it’s not about how much you make, but how much you don’t lose
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Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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I never lost money by turning a profit.
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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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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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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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The path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom – the clothing of the grave – that some people believe she is already fitted for.
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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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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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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I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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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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Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
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Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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