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.
- Bernard Baruch Quote

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 Quote

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
- Bernard Baruch Quote

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 Quote

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
- Bernard Baruch Quote

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 Quote

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
- Bernard Baruch Quote

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
- Bernard Baruch Quote

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
- Bernard Baruch Quote

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
- Bernard Baruch Quote

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
- Bernard Baruch Quote

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
- Bernard Baruch Quote

Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
- Bernard Baruch Quote

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.
- Bernard Baruch Quote

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
- Bernard Baruch Quote

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 Quote

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
- Bernard Baruch Quote

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
- Bernard Baruch Quote

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.
- Bernard Baruch Quote

Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.
- Bernard Baruch Quote

Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
- Bernard Baruch Quote

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
- Bernard Baruch Quote

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
- Bernard Baruch Quote

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 Quote

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
- Bernard Baruch Quote

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.
- Bernard Baruch Quote