Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
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.
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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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It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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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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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
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Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
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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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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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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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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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Become more humble as the market goes your way.
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None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. … The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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