Quotes By Bernard Baruch

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

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

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

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

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

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.

I never lost money by turning a profit.