Bernard Baruch Quotes
Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock. No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world. Nobody ever lost money taking a profit. Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed. 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. The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself. The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles. The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible. There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers. To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people. Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others. Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time. We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat. We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. 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.
Web Toolbar by Wibiya 