Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
BERNARD BARUCHYou 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.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
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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 get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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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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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average.
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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
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Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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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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Now is always the hardest time to invest.
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So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.
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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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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
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Knowing 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.
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