Bernard Baruch Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Bernard Baruch
I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

Bernard Baruch
So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.

Bernard Baruch
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Bernard Baruch
Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.

Bernard Baruch
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.

Bernard Baruch
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

Bernard Baruch
Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.

Bernard Baruch
We must remember that the people do not belong to the government but that government belongs to the people.

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
Don't try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.

Bernard Baruch
I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

Bernard Baruch
Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.

Bernard Baruch
When the outlook is steeped in pessimism, I remind myself, "Two and two still make four, and you can't keep humankind down for long."

Bernard Baruch
If you have made a mistake cut your losses as quickly as possible.

Bernard Baruch
I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. In fact, I have been one of those men.

Bernard Baruch
Let us not be deceived — we are today in the midst of a cold war. Our enemies are to be found abroad and at home. Let us never forget this: Our unrest is the heart of their success. The peace of the world is the hope and the goal of our political system; it is the despair and defeat of those who stand against us.

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
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
Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by the New York Federal Reserve bank, in the spring of 1927, to cut the rediscount rate. Benjamin Strong, Governor of the bank, was chief advocate of this unwise measure, which was taken largely at the behest of Montagu Norman of the Bank of England....At the time of the Banks action I warned of its consequences....I felt that sooner or later the market had to break.

Bernard Baruch