Quotes By Bernard Baruch

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

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

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.