black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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

Anybody Consciousness Failure Mistake Nothing
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
BERNARD BARUCH

Fall Higher Insurance Money Pension Unemployment
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
BERNARD BARUCH

Blessing Discipline Freedom
Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.
BERNARD BARUCH

People Praise Quick
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
I made my money by selling too soon.
BERNARD BARUCH

Business Finance Selling
Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
BERNARD BARUCH

Deceive Destruction Ourselves Peace
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

Book Friends Giving Old
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
Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
BERNARD BARUCH

Forests Insider Play Tree
The stock market is people.
BERNARD BARUCH

Market People Stock
Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
BERNARD BARUCH

Listen Most Mostly People Successful
I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
BERNARD BARUCH

Learn Men Observation
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
America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
BERNARD BARUCH

Believe Maturity Path Years
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
BERNARD BARUCH

Expectations Thinking Work

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bernard Baruch Quotes