Bernard Baruch Quotes

#1. 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. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#2. We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#3. The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#4. Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#5. All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#6. Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#7. Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject, ethics, logic, philosophy, the humanities and sociology, in fact everything that is part of how we live and react to one another. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#8. A man can't retire his experience. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#9. Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#10. I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#11. Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#12. The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#13. The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#14. 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. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#15. You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#16. Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#17. Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#18. Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human duty. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than physics. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#19. If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#20. Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#21. The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today's earnings for the future. Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#22. Don't try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#23. I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#24. 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. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#25. Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#26. Never answer a critic, unless he's right. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#27. 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. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#28. Bears don't live on Park Avenue. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#29. 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. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#30. To me - old age is always ten years older than I am. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#31. It is far more difficult ... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#32. When the outlook is steeped in pessimism, I remind myself, "Two and two still make four, and you can't keep humankind down for long." - Author: Bernard Baruch

#33. Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#34. The stock market is people. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#35. If you have made a mistake cut your losses as quickly as possible. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#36. 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. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#37. The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#38. There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#39. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#40. Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#41. In trading/ investing it's not about how much you make, but how much you don't lose - Author: Bernard Baruch

#42. Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#43. 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. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#44. Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#45. Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#46. No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won't let him. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#47. If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#48. I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#49. You can't repeal human nature by an Act of Congress. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#50. 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. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#51. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#52. Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#53. When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#54. The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England - Author: Bernard Baruch

#55. Always do one thing less than you think you can do. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#56. We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#57. America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#58. I'll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#59. Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#60. Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#61. Now is always the hardest time to invest. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#62. Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#63. Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#64. A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#65. We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#66. Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#67. One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#68. Become more humble as the market goes your way. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#69. We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#70. Creativity: 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. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#71. Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#72. Don't speculate unless you can make it a full time job. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#73. Nobody ever lost money taking a profit. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#74. Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#75. Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#76. Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#77. I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#78. When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#79. No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#80. Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#81. So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#82. We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time. - Author: Bernard Baruch

#83. I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it. - Author: Bernard Baruch