Bernard Baruch Short Quotes

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To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Bernard Baruch
Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.

Bernard Baruch
Today, government is involved in almost every aspect of our lives.

Bernard Baruch
If you have made a mistake cut your losses as quickly as possible.

Bernard Baruch
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Bernard Baruch
Don't try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.

Bernard Baruch
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

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Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

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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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There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.

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I am quite sure that in the hereafter she will take me by the hand and lead me to my proper seat.

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I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

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If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.

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We must remember that the people do not belong to the government but that government belongs to the people.

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I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

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When the outlook is steeped in pessimism, I remind myself, "Two and two still make four, and you can't keep humankind down for long."

Bernard Baruch
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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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

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I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it.

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

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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.

Bernard Baruch
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. In fact, I have been one of those men.

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Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation … Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

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During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Bernard Baruch