Quotes from Bernard Baruch

If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

I never lost money by turning a profit.

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.

The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.

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

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

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.

No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won't let him.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

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

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

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

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

Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

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

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.