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 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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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I never lost money by turning a profit.
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We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
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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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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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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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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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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, the realities that must be grappled with.
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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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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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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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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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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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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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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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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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The stock market is people.
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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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There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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