Bernard Baruch Quotes

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

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

  Bernard Baruch

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• Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

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

  Bernard Baruch

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

  Bernard Baruch

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• Never follow the crowd.

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• Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

  Bernard Baruch

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

  Bernard Baruch

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

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

  Bernard Baruch

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

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

  Bernard Baruch

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

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• 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.

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• I never lost money by turning a profit.

  Bernard Baruch

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

  Bernard Baruch

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  Tags in Right, Man

• 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.

  Bernard Baruch

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

  Bernard Baruch

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• Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

  Bernard Baruch

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

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Bernard Baruch (49)

Birth:	19th August, 1870
Death:	20th June, 1965
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman

About

Bernard Mannes Baruch was a secular-Jewish American financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters and became a philanthropist.

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