Become more humble as the market goes your way.
BERNARD BARUCHApproach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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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 longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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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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Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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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, the realities that must be grappled with.
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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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I never lost money by turning a profit.
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It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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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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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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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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Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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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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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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Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
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Never follow the crowd.
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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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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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Society can progress if men’s labors show a profit – if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
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The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today’s earnings for the future.
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Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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