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.
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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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…
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We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.
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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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Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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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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Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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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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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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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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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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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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I made my money by selling too soon.
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Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
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Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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