Bernard Baruch was a famous Businessman from USA, who lived between August 19, 1870 and June 20, 1965. He/she became 94 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac leo, who is known for Ruling, Warmth, Generosity, Faithful, Initiative.
Our collection contains 36 quotes who is written / told by Bernard, under the main topics: Leadership - Finance.
36 Famous quotes by Bernard Baruch
"Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing"
"The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible"
"Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking"
"To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am"
"The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself"
"I made my money by selling too soon"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell"
"If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace"
"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"
"Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars"
"Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures"
"A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs"
"Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why"
"You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache"
"We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time"
"Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts"
"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"
"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed"
"Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure"
"Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock"
"Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction"
"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"
"No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world"
"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"
"Nobody ever lost money taking a profit"
"In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves"
"Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war"
"I never lost money by turning a profit"
"Always do one thing less than you think you can do"
"Never follow the crowd"
"If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right"
"The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves"
"The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles"
