Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
BERNARD BARUCHDuring my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
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In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world’s greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.
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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 political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.
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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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You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
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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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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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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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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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Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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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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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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