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Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
Bernard Baruch
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Bernard Baruch
Age: 94 †
Born: 1870
Born: August 19
Died: 1965
Died: June 20
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South Carolina
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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.
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.
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Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
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We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
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We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.
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You can't repeal human nature by an Act of Congress.
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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
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I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
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I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .
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Vote for the man who promises least he'll be the least disappointing.
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