Quotes by
Bernard Baruch |
1870-1965 , American businessman & statesman
American financier, stock market speculator, statesman. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising Democratic presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters. | 35 quotes | 1,592 visits |
Quotations
| • | Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing. 16 |
| • | Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. 7 |
| • | To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. 6 |
| • | If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. 6 |
| • | One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed. 6 |
| • | Let us not be deceived — we are today in the midst of a cold war. (he was the first to use the term “cold war”) 5 |
| • | The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself. 4 |
| • | The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. 4 |
| • | Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. |
| • | 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. |
| • | A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs. |
| • | Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking. |
| • | Become more humble as the market goes your way. |
| • | Now is always the hardest time to invest. |
| • | When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell. |
| • | It is far more difficult to know when to sell a stock than when to buy. |
| • | I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move, if I get to keep the middle 80%. |
| • | Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars. |
| • | Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them. |
| • | I made my money by selling too soon. |
| • | 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 have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men. |
| • | Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players. |
| • | 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. |
| • | During my 87 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. |
| • | Never answer a critic, unless he's right. |
| • | If you have made a mistake cut your losses as quickly as possible. |
| • | The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. |
| • | Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster. |
| • | We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. |
| • | Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth. |
| • | There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers. |
| • | Something that everyone knows isn’t worth anything. |
