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.
BERNARD BARUCHOnly as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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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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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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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all…
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Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
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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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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 terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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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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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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