No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
BERNARD BARUCHYou 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.
More Bernard Baruch Quotes
-
-
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 -
America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…
BERNARD BARUCH -
There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
BERNARD BARUCH -
A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within the year – on the condition that if he didn’t succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. “Within a year,” the man explained later.
BERNARD BARUCH -
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…
BERNARD BARUCH -
In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world’s greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.
BERNARD BARUCH -
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
BERNARD BARUCH -
Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
BERNARD BARUCH -
I never lost money by turning a profit.
BERNARD BARUCH -
The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today’s earnings for the future.
BERNARD BARUCH -
A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future.
BERNARD BARUCH -
We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
BERNARD BARUCH -
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 -
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 -
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