We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
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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When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
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Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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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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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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“The king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly.” My philosophy is like that man’s. I take the long-range view.
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We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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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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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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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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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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