Bernard Baruch quotes - page 2

Never follow the crowd. (Bernard Baruch)
I made my money by selling too soon. View quote
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The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible. View quote
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. 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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock. View quote
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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself. View quote
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. View quote
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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace. View quote
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. View quote
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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. (Bernard Baruch)
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles. View quote
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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. View quote
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We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time. View quote
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You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache. View quote
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I never lost money by turning a profit. View quote
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There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers. View quote
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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. (Bernard Baruch)
Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players. View quote
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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil. View quote
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Never answer a critic, unless he's right. View quote
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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want. View quote
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