black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Bernard Baruch

Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don’t be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job.
BERNARD BARUCH

Calm Independent Jobs Keep Polite Success Tidy
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
BERNARD BARUCH

Men State Thinking Zero
Society can progress if men’s labors show a profit – if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
BERNARD BARUCH

Loss Men Produce Profit Progress Show Yield
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
BERNARD BARUCH

Approach Problem Views
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

Being Fortune Quickly Right Sense Wrong
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

Brain Passion Prejudice Sharp
Become more humble as the market goes your way.
BERNARD BARUCH

Humble Market More Way
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
BERNARD BARUCH

Disappointment Freedom Keepin Promise
Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
BERNARD BARUCH

Fields Sticks Trying
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
BERNARD BARUCH

Communication Ideas Important
Now is always the hardest time to invest.
BERNARD BARUCH

Always Hardest Investing Times
I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.
BERNARD BARUCH

Imagination Inspirational Intelligence
Creativity: 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 BARUCH

Art Bucketful Courage Creativity Generous Imagination Teacher
A man can’t retire his experience.
BERNARD BARUCH

Ciphers Experience Retirement
So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.
BERNARD BARUCH

Available Detector Fingerprint Hate Instruments Lying Men Shiver Washing
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 dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.
BERNARD BARUCH

Atom Domain Evil Instead Lies Lying Taught

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bernard Baruch Quotes