Bernard M. Baruch Quotes

"I made my money by selling too soon."

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

"Never follow the crowd."

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

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

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

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

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

"I never lost money by turning a profit."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache."

"Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures."