If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
BERNARD BARUCHKnowing 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.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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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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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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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year – on the condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. “Within a year,” the man explained later.
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Society can progress if men’s labors show a profit – if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
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Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
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The path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom – the clothing of the grave – that some people believe she is already fitted for.
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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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Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.
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