Bernard Baruch Famous Quotes
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
I made my money by selling too soon.
"To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."
"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."
"Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation."
Bernard Baruch Quotations
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Albert Einstein
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain
"There was a perception that life here was-I won't say gray, that's hard for me-but beige."
Hanna Holborn Gray
"Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
"What a terrible time this is to be a Christian. The churches have failed and betrayed us, and the ministry preaches hate and murder. If there is a sane and reasoning voice in the Christian church today it is sadly silent."
Francois Arouet
"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence."
Tom Blair
"The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"Rev. Brown If lovin' the lord is wrong, I don't want to be right."
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