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

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

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

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

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

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

I made my money by selling too soon.
Bernard Baruch

I never lost money by turning a profit.
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

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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

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

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

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
Bernard Baruch

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
Bernard Baruch

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

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
Bernard Baruch

Never follow the crowd.
Bernard Baruch