black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.

Bernard Baruch

Don’t pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.
BERNARD BARUCH

Friends Loyal Newspaper Pity Prejudice Quick Read
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
BERNARD BARUCH

Men War Weaponry
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
I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
BERNARD BARUCH

Giving Keep Middle Moving Top
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…
BERNARD BARUCH

Lying Peace Salvation Work
Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
BERNARD BARUCH

Inspirational Leadership Teacher
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.
BERNARD BARUCH

Information Men Power Reasoning
Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.
BERNARD BARUCH

Aged Anything Enemy Inflation Old
When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
BERNARD BARUCH

Country News Observes Pages
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.
BERNARD BARUCH

Communism Government Important Political Struggle
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
We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
BERNARD BARUCH

Bridges Crosses Economy
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. .
BERNARD BARUCH

Effort Experience Son
Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.
BERNARD BARUCH

Agreement Sanction Secure Tranquil Understanding
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
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
BERNARD BARUCH

Business Future Men

Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bernard Baruch Quotes