Bernard Baruch
Bernard Baruch
Bernard Mannes Baruchwas an 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth19 August 1870
CountryUnited States of America
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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. .
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America has never forgotten - and will never forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path - 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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When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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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.
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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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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.
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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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No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won't let him.
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Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human duty. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than physics.
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Never answer a critic, unless he's right.
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The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.