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: Facts, Opinions, Opinion
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
Two things are bad for the heart—running up stairs and running down people.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Heart
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Realistic Expectations, Life and Living
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Politics, Promises, Voting
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: Mistakes, Failures
We didn’t all come over on the same ship, but we’re all in the same boat.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Equality, Life
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
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
Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Ideas
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
Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.
—Bernard M. Baruch
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
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Communication, Speech
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
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
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
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Age, Birthdays
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
Never follow the crowd.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Follow, Individuality
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Work
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Contentment, Happiness
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
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
Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Success, Success & Failure
Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him and all the others.
—Bernard M. Baruch
There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Possibilities, Potential
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Profit, Business
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Imagination
Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
—Bernard M. Baruch
Topics: Attention
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