47 ordspråk av Bernard M. Baruch
Bernard M. Baruch
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
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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.
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There are no such things as incurables, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.
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To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
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Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.
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Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
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We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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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.
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