Quotes By Bernard Baruch

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Never follow the crowd.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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