Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
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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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
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Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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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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America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.
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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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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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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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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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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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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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I made my money by selling too soon.
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