Bernard Baruch Quotes

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

Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.

No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won't let him.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I'll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.

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

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

Don't try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.

Now is always the hardest time to invest.

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.

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

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 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.

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

Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

A man can't retire his experience.

The stock market is people.

Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.

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

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

I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.

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

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

Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.

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

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

Become more humble as the market goes your way.

Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.

If you have made a mistake cut your losses as quickly as possible.

Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.

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

I made my money by selling too soon.

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

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.

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

I never lost money by turning a profit.

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