Best 93 quotes of Bernard Baruch on MyQuotes

A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future. What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made? In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world's greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.

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.

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.

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

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

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

A man can't retire his experience.

A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty's horse to fly within the year - on the condition that if he didn't succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. "Within a year," the man explained later, "the king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly." My philosophy is like that man's. I take the long-range view.

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

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.

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.

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

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

Bears don't live on Park Avenue.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

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

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

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.

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.

Financial storm definitely passed.

Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I made my money by selling too soon.

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

I never lost money by turning a profit.

Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.

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

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

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. .

Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers. Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters - or anyone - bringing gifts of 'inside' information or tips. Don't try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.

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

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

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

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