Bernard Baruch Quotes

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.
Bernard M. Baruch

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
Bernard M. Baruch

Never follow the crowd.
Bernard M. Baruch

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard M. Baruch

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
Bernard M. Baruch

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.
Bernard M. Baruch

Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.
Bernard M. Baruch

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.
Bernard M. Baruch

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
Bernard M. Baruch

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
Bernard M. Baruch

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.
Bernard M. Baruch

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 M. Baruch

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

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
Bernard M. Baruch

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

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.
Bernard M. Baruch

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

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 M. Baruch

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

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

Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
Bernard M. Baruch

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

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
Bernard M. Baruch

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

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

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
Bernard M. Baruch

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
Bernard M. Baruch

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

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