Bernard Baruch
Bernard Baruch
Bernard Mannes Baruchwas an 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth19 August 1870
CountryUnited States of America
lying world-destruction work-out
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation. . . . Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
men power information
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.
son effort spurs
I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .
new-york pages news
When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
cutting loss yield
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.
struggle government political
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.
anger men humiliate
No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won't let him.
lying taught-us evil
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human duty. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than physics.
war shooting cold
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
men two investing
Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
play tree forests
Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees.
disappointment freedom keeping-promises
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
life positive forgiveness
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
motivational errors action
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.