Bernard Baruch Quotes (50 Quotes)


    We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

    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.

    You don't have to blow out the other fellow's light to let your own shine.

    During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.



    You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.

    Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

    A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

    Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong about his facts.

    One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

    Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

    Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

    To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

    Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.


    Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

    Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

    Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.

    The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

    The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

    To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold.

    Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.

    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.

    I am quite sure that in the hereafter she will take me by the hand and lead me to my proper seat.


    Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.

    In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

    Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

    When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.


    Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.


    The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

    Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.

    Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

    If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.

    Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

    There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.

    If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.

    Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

    Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

    Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

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

    A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

    If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

    There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.

    No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

    Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

    We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

    We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.


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