Top 118 Quotes & Sayings by Bernard Baruch

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I made my money by selling too soon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I never lost money by turning a profit.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

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

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

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

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

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

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

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

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

Never follow the crowd.

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.

Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.

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.

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

Now is always the hardest time to invest.

In trading/ investing it's not about how much you make, but how much you don't lose

Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.

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

Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.

You don't have to blow out the other person's light to let your own shine.

Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.

The stock market is people.

It is far more difficult... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.

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

Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.