Bernard Baruch Quotes

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Bernard Baruch

Profession : Businessman

Birth : August 19, 1870

Never follow the crowd.

Bernard Baruch

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

Bernard Baruch

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.

Bernard Baruch

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

Bernard Baruch

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

Bernard Baruch

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.

Bernard Baruch

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

Bernard Baruch

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

Bernard Baruch

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

Bernard Baruch

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.

Bernard Baruch

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

Bernard Baruch

If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.

Bernard Baruch

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

Bernard Baruch

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

Bernard Baruch

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

Bernard Baruch

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

Bernard Baruch

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

Bernard Baruch

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

Bernard Baruch

You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.

Bernard Baruch

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

Bernard Baruch