When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
BERNARD BARUCHI made my money by selling too soon.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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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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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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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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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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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
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Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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Never follow the crowd.
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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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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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The stock market is people.
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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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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England
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