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
There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Potential, Possibilities
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 M. Baruch
Topics: Retirement, Accomplishment, Age
We didn’t all come over on the same ship, but we’re all in the same boat.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Life, Equality
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Realistic Expectations, Acceptance, Adversity
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 M. Baruch
Topics: Facts
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
Try as we may, none of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread…. The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. Man and society must grow together. Each individual’s efforts to discipline himself must be matched by society’s struggle to enforce the rules of law and of justice under the law.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Opportunities, Reality, Problems, Failure
Higher prices are themselves inflation and not merely the result of it. They are accelerated and not stopped by taxation…. It isn’t high prices that persuade the high cost and marginal producer to make the investment necessary to bring him into production. It is the promise of profit. High prices without profit merely requires more investment to support turnover and inventory.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Profit
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Realistic Expectations, Life and Living
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
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Assumptions, Future
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: Self-Knowledge, Identity
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Imagination
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
Never follow the crowd.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Follow, Individuality
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 M. Baruch
Topics: Character
Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Opinions, Facts, Opinion
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Contentment, Happiness
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
Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can’t be done, except by liars.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Business
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Birthdays, Age
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 M. Baruch
Topics: Planning, Thought
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. I have been one of those men.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Failures, Mistakes
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Work
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Communication, Speech
Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Attention
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
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 made my money by selling too soon.
—Bernard M. Baruch
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