Bernard Baruch Quotes

• If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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• Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

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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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• Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

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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.

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• Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

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• The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

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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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• 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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• The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

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• Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.

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• When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.

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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.

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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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• We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

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

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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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• The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

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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.

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Bernard Baruch (49)

Birth:	19th August, 1870
Death:	20th June, 1965
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman

About

Bernard Mannes Baruch was a secular-Jewish American financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters and became a philanthropist.

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