Quotes from Bernard M. Baruch

Never follow the crowd.

Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

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.

Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.

We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we're all in the same boat.

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

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.

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

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

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

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

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

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

I made my money by selling too soon.

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

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

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it.

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

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

We are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

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.