Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all…
BERNARD BARUCHBehind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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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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Never follow the crowd.
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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.
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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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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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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
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Don’t pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.
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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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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 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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Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
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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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Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.
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Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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