Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters – or anyone – bringing gifts of ‘inside’ information or tips. Don’t try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.
BERNARD BARUCHThere are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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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Financial storm definitely passed.
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All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
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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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Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
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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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None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. … The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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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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A man can’t retire his experience.
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I made my money by selling too soon.
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Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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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.
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Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.
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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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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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Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.
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There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
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We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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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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Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
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