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.
BERNARD BARUCHAgriculture 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.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.
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Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
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Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged.
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I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
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Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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I never lost money by turning a profit.
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Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
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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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