Quotes By Bernard Baruch

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

Never follow the crowd.

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

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.

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

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.

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

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

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

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

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I made my money by selling too soon.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

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.

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

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.