A Quote by Bernard Baruch

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Bernard Baruch

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Everything Hammer Like Looks Nail

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Bernard Baruch
American - Businessman
August 19, 1870 - June 20, 1965

Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.

Jeff Grubb

To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Mark Twain

As the saying goes, when you`re a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Chuck Todd

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; and when you're a left-wing sorehead, everything is an occasion to damn the rich.

George Scialabba

Steve Bannon was my right-hand man for, like, seven years. He's a hammer. And when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. He's very sure and very smart. Very driven, very patriotic. He's not most of the things that people say.

Brock Pierce

When all you've got is a hammer, bad service looks like a nail.

David "Doc" Searls

To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

Charlie Munger

Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend [Charlie Munger] said, to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Roger Lowenstein

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

Abraham Maslow

If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

Mark Twain

When we hit a nail with a hammer, the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into the point without any of it being lost, although it is only a point. If the hammer and the head of the nail were infinitely big it would be just the same. The point of the nail would transmit this infinite shock at the point to which it was applied. Extreme affliction, which means physical pain, distress of soul and social degradation, all at the same time, constitutes the nail. The point is applied at the very center of the soul, whose head is all necessity, spreading throughout space and time.

Simone Weil

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.

Abraham Maslow

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

James Gleick

When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.

Abraham Maslow

The song 'If I Had a Hammer' is geared toward people who don't have a hammer. Maybe before I had a hammer I thought I'd hammer in the morning and hammer in the evening. But once you get a hammer, you find you don't really hammer as much as you thought you would.