America has never forgotten - and never will 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.

Bernard Baruch

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Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

Bernard Baruch

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Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

Bernard Baruch

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Bernard Baruch

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In trading/ investing it's not about how much you make, but how much you don't lose

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Get to know yourself. Know your own 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... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.

Bernard Baruch

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Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.

Bernard Baruch

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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.

Bernard Baruch

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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

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It is far more difficult... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.

Bernard Baruch

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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.

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Never follow the crowd.

Bernard Baruch

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When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.

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Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.

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I'll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.

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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You don't have to blow out the other person's light to let your own shine.

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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

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Don't speculate unless you can make it a full time job.

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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

Bernard Baruch

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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

Bernard Baruch

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