Quotes By Bernard Baruch

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I never lost money by turning a profit.

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

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

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

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.