Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Age, Birthdays
We can’t cross a bridge until we come to it; but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Planning
Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject, ethics, logic, philosophy, the humanities and sociology, in fact everything that is part of how we live and react to one another.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Economy
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Age, Aging
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Weapon
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
Topics: Peace
Save for gold, jewels, works of art, perhaps good agricultural land, and a very few other things, there ain’t no such animal as a permanent investment.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Wealth
Two things are bad for the heart—running up stairs and running down people.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Heart
You 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 the form of government.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Profit, Business
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 M. Baruch
Topics: Responsibility
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. Discipline is deciding not to be led around by our gotta haves. It is the task of a lifetime, an indispensable prerequisite to success, and the only way to be truly free.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Freedom
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody, everything, every night before you go to bed.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don’t be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job, don’t pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Success
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Realistic Expectations, Life and Living
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
Topics: Gold
Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Business
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Imagination
In America, if you put your mind to it you can have anything you want. You just can’t have everything you want.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: America
Never follow the crowd.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Follow, Individuality
Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Success & Failure, Success
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Adversity, Acceptance, Realistic Expectations
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Thinking, Thoughts, Thought
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Contentment, Happiness
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Questions, Questioning, Curiosity
Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Failures, Blame, Self-reliance, Responsibility, Confidence, Self-Discovery, Excellence, Awareness, Mistakes, Realization, Acceptance
Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him and all the others.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Identity, Self-Knowledge
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
Topics: Teaching
When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
—Bernard M. Baruch
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