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Bernard Baruch [1870-1965] American

Rank: 101
Businessman, Financier

Bernard Mannes Baruch was a Jewish American financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters and became a philanthropist.

Age, Peace, Birthday, Failure, Finance, Forgiveness, History, Leadership, Money, Politics, Power, War

Quote	Tags	Rank
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.		101
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.	Peace	102
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.	Age, Birthday	103
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.		104
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.		105
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.		106
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.	Leadership	107
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.	Money	108
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.	History, Peace	109
Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.		110
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.		111
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.	Politics	112
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.	Forgiveness	113
Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.		114
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.		115
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.		116
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.	Power	117
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.	War	118
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.	Failure	119
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.		120
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.	Age	121
I made my money by selling too soon.	Finance	122
We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.		123
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.	Age	124
There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.		125
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.		126
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.		201
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.		202
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.		203
When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.		204
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.		205
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.		206
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.		207
Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.		208
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.		209
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.		210
Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.		211
You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.		212
You can 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 government.		213
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.		214
If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.		215
Never follow the crowd.		216
In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.		217
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.		218
I never lost money by turning a profit.		219

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