Bernard Mannes Baruch was an American financier and statesman. After amassing a fortune on the New York Stock Exchange, he impressed President Woodrow Wilson by managing the nation’s economic mobilization in World War I as chairman of the War Industries Board, He advised Wilson during the Paris Peace Conference. These Bernard Baruch quotes will motivate you.
Best Bernard Baruch Quotes
- “Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “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 Baruch
- “You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.” ~ Bernard Baruch
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“Now is always the hardest time to invest.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.” ~ Bernard Baruch
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“Become more humble as the market goes your way.” ~ 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
- “Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “Never follow the crowd.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “Creativity: 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 Baruch
- “Get to know yourself. Know your own 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… Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot–or if you do not know how to improve on things–then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.” ~ Bernard Baruch
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“Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “I made my money by selling too soon.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “In trading/ investing it’s not about how much you make, but how much you don’t lose” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “When the outlook is steeped in pessimism, I remind myself, “Two and two still make four, and you can’t keep humankind down for long.”” ~ Bernard 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 Baruch
- “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.” ~ Bernard Baruch
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“Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.” ~ 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
- “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 Baruch
- “We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “Always do one thing less than you think you can do.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.” ~ Bernard Baruch
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“A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “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.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.” ~ 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
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“I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “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 Baruch
- “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 Baruch
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“Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.” ~ 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
- “Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers. Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters – or anyone – bringing gifts of ‘inside’ information or tips. Don’t try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.” ~ Bernard Baruch
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“Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “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 Baruch
- “Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.” ~ Bernard Baruch Quotes
- “The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.” ~ Bernard Baruch
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“Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “If you have made a mistake cut your losses as quickly as possible.” ~ Bernard Baruch
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“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.” ~ 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
- “I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “You can’t repeal human nature by an Act of Congress.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.” ~ Bernard Baruch
