Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
BERNARD BARUCHAnything 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.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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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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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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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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“The king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly.” My philosophy is like that man’s. I take the long-range view.
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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. … The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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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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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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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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Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.
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