Quotes from Bernard Baruch

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

Don't speculate unless you can make it a full time job.

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.

The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England

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

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.

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.

There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.

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.

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

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

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

Never follow the crowd.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

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.

There are no such things as incurable s. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees.

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

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.

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.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.