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. .
BERNARD BARUCHYou don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
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Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.
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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
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Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
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Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
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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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Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
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No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
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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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Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
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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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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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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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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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