No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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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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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We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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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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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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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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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
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Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
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When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
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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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Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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