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Bernard Baruch - noteworthy quotations

Posted September 28th, 2005 by Don

  • "Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong about his facts."
  • "To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am."
  • "We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat."
  • "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
  • "If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right. If you don't get all the facts, it can't be right."
  • "There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure." - Speech on April 30, 1954
  • "I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why." -New York Post (June 24, 1965)
  • "We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time."
  • "The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible."
  • "A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs."

— Bernard Baruch, Statesman, financier, economist (1870-1965)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Bernard_Baruch


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