Bernard Baruch Quotes

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

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees.

Bears don't live on Park Avenue.

Don't speculate unless you can make it a full time job.

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

Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.

Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.

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."

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

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

We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.

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.

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.

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

Never answer a critic, unless he's right.

America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path...

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit

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

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

Financial storm definitely passed.

Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.

The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England

Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.

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

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

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.

You can't repeal human nature by an Act of Congress.

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

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

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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