Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can’t be done except by liars. – Bernard 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 Baruch
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed. – Bernard 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 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 Baruch
Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking. – Bernard Baruch
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. – Bernard Baruch
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. – Bernard Baruch
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace. – Bernard 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 Baruch
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 Baruch
