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Age
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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.
-Bernard Baruch
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
-Bernard Baruch
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America
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In America, if you put your mind to it you can have anything you want. You just can't have everything you want.
-Bernard Baruch
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Assumptions
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
-Bernard Baruch
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Business
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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.
-Bernard Baruch
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Character
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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
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Communication
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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
-Bernard Baruch
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Facts
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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.
-Bernard Baruch
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Freedom
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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
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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
-Bernard Baruch
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Gold
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Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
-Bernard Baruch
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Heart
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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.
-Bernard Baruch
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Ideas
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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.
-Bernard Baruch
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Identity
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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.
-Bernard Baruch
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Investment
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When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
-Bernard Baruch, 1929
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Bears don't live on Park Avenue.
-Bernard Baruch
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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.
-Bernard Baruch
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I made my money by selling too soon.
-Bernard Baruch
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Life
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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
-Bernard Baruch
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Opinion
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Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
-Bernard Baruch
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Peace
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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.
-Bernard Baruch
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Politics
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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.
-Bernard Baruch
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Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-Bernard Baruch
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Potential
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There are no such things as incurable s. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
-Bernard Baruch
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Questions
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Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Books by and about Bernard Baruch