black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.

Bernard Baruch

Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all…
BERNARD BARUCH

Knowing Passion Thinking
Colleges don’t teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past.
BERNARD BARUCH

College Little Past Philosophy
No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.
BERNARD BARUCH

Anger Humiliate Men
The path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom – the clothing of the grave – that some people believe she is already fitted for.
BERNARD BARUCH

Ago Clothes Grave Hundred People Some Years Young
I never lost money by turning a profit.
BERNARD BARUCH

Lost Lost Money Profit
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
When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
BERNARD BARUCH

Country News Observes Pages
Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
BERNARD BARUCH

Inspirational Success Talking
Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
BERNARD BARUCH

Government Individuality People
Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
BERNARD BARUCH

Economy Increase Men Produce
You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
BERNARD BARUCH

Blame Complaining Overcoming
I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
BERNARD BARUCH

Men Mistake Motivation Prove Skill
The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England
BERNARD BARUCH

Believe Country Information Wall
I made my money by selling too soon.
BERNARD BARUCH

Business Finance Selling
Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
BERNARD BARUCH

Ethics Responsibility Tomorrow
Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
BERNARD BARUCH

Forests Insider Play Tree

When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bernard Baruch Quotes