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.
BERNARD BARUCHAmerica has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
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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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A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year – on the condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. “Within a year,” the man explained later.
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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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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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Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
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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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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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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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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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Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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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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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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