“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
Bernard M. Baruch
“Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.”
Bernard M. Baruch
“Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.”
Bernard M. Baruch
“Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts”
Bernard M. Baruch
“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
Bernard M. Baruch
“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 M. Baruch
the problem with facts, is that they seem to be a progression of ideas..
ideas become belief, become truth, become fact…
I forget when I read that quote and it is horribly misquoted as the original was much more eloquent but the idea is there. Within a persons mental/environmental box that they have created is all the idea and belief of the world they need and in some sense have actually created themselves. As time goes on these ideas and beliefs solidify under more solidification of experiences (though they may still be only from this person’s boxed perspective) and then these ideas become fact. Of course, this doesnt just happen on an individual basis but in the masses as well. A great example is fake news and how anything that doesnt register with ones current beliefs and truths must be fake news. This meme has, in effect, put an almost complete stop to any evolving beliefs and truths… one could also argue that facts are just that…facts to the world as a whole if there was no personal perspective to muddy them, but there is always a personal slant.
“In 1915, Bernard Baruch was invited by president Woodrow Wilson to design a plan for a defense mobilization committee. This Baruch plan subsequently became the War Industries Board… By March 1918, President Wilson had endowed Baruch with more power than any other individual had been granted in the history of the United States. The War Industries Board, with Baruch as its chairman, became responsible for building all factories and for the supply of all raw material, all products, and all transportation, and all its final decisions rested with chairman Bernard Baruch. In brief, Baruch became economic dictator of the United States… Baruch, with extraordinary and unconstitutional powers, had, in his own words, “finally developed a scheme of positive ‘control’ over the major portion of the industrial fabric…”
From “Wall Street and FDR” by Antony Sutton