When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
BERNARD BARUCHTo me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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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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We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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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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Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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I made my money by selling too soon.
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Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
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