Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot–or if you do not know how to improve on things–then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.
BERNARD BARUCHThe terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.
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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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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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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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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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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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Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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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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What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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