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Bernard M. Baruch Quotes

Type: Businessman   |    Date of Birth: 1870-08-19   |    Year of Death: 1965   |    Nationality: American
A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.
Bernard M. Baruch

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.
Bernard M. Baruch

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
Bernard M. Baruch

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
Bernard M. Baruch

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

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard M. Baruch

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.
Bernard M. Baruch

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.
Bernard M. Baruch

I am quite sure that in the hereafter she will take me by the hand and lead me to my proper seat.
Bernard M. Baruch

I made my money by selling too soon.
Bernard M. Baruch

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

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

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

Never follow the crowd.
Bernard M. Baruch

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.
Bernard M. 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 M. Baruch

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

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.
Bernard M. Baruch

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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