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Bernard Baruch

b: Camden, South Carolina, Aug 19, 1870

d: New York, New York, Jun 20, 1968

American. Businessman. Statesman. Adviser to several US presidents; special adviser on war mobilization, WWII

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I made my money by selling too soon.

I never lost money by turing a profit.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

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

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.

Portraits, except of old people whose features are fixed, rarely give a correct idea of persons, except to those who have known them. To those they recall the looks and the features.

Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

The sinews of war are five – men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

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

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

Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

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