Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
BERNARD BARUCHColleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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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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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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Financial storm definitely passed.
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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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When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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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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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.
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I made my money by selling too soon.
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time… When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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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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You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot–or if you do not know how to improve on things–then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.
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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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I never lost money by turning a profit.
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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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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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Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
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Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .
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Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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