47 Bernard Baruch Quotes

Bernard Baruch quotes

1. America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path - the path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago ... How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom - the clothing of the grave - that some people believe she is already fitted for.

2. Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation ... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

3. Let us not be deceived - we are today in the midst of a cold war. Our enemies are to be found abroad and at home. Let us never forget this: Our unrest is the heart of their success. The peace of the world is the hope and the goal of our political system; it is the despair and defeat of those who stand against us.

4. Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

5. Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

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

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

8. I am quite sure that in the hereafter she will take me by the hand and lead me to my proper seat.

9. 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.

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

11. 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.

12. I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

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

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

15. Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong about his facts.

16. I made my money by selling too soon.

17. I never lost money by turning a profit.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

24. Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it.

25. I am a speculator. The word comes from the Latin speculari, which means 'observe.' I observe.

26. It will fluctuate ...when asked what the market would do. Widely attributed to Baruch, this quote actually originated with J. P. Morgan.

1. A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

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

7. 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 dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

8. 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."

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.

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

11. Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don't be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job, don't pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.

12. Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.

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

14. 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.

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

16. 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.

17. The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.

21. 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. .