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.
BERNARD BARUCHVote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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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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What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
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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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Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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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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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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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
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We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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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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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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We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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