To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
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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Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…
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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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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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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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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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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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Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
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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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Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
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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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Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
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