“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.
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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Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged.
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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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I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
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Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
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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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Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
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The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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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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Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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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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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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Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.
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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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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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