Quotes By Bernard Baruch

I made my money by selling too soon.

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

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.

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

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

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

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

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

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

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.

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

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.

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