Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
BERNARD BARUCHA dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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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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No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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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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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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Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.
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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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Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters – or anyone – bringing gifts of ‘inside’ information or tips. Don’t try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.
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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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A man can’t retire his experience.
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Never follow the crowd.
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Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.
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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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Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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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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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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I made my money by selling too soon.
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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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Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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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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“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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It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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