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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 M. Baruch - [Self-knowledge]
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
~ Bernard M. Baruch - [Speculation]
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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
~ Bernard M. Baruch - [Success]
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Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
~ Bernard M. Baruch - [Voting]
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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 M. Baruch - [Peace]
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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.
~ Bernard M. Baruch - [Planning]
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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 M. Baruch - [Politicians and Politics]
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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 M. Baruch - [Possibilities]
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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 M. Baruch - [Opinions]
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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 M. Baruch - [Facts]
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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
~ Bernard M. Baruch - [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 M. Baruch - [Freedom]
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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 M. Baruch - [Gold]
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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.
~ Bernard M. Baruch - [Heart]
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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 M. Baruch - [Ideas]
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
~ Bernard M. Baruch - [Age and Aging]
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Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
~ Bernard M. Baruch - [Ask]
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