Quotes by Bernard Baruch

About Bernard Baruch:

Bernard Mannes Baruch was an American financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters and became a philanthropist.
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To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Bernard Baruch

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

Bernard 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 Baruch

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

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

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

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

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

Bernard Baruch

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

Bernard Baruch

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.

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

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

I made my money by selling too soon.

Bernard Baruch

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

Bernard Baruch

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

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

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

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 Baruch

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Bernard Baruch

I never lost money by turning a profit.

Bernard Baruch

Author Bio

  • NameBernard Baruch
  • DescriptionAmerican businessman
  • BornAugust 19, 1870
  • DiedJune 20, 1965
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionStockbroker; Politician; Entrepreneur; Financier