Top 70 Bernard M. Baruch Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

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2. “Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

3. “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

4. “If you have made a mistake cut your losses as quickly as possible.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

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5. “Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the only one who asked why.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

6. “You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

7. “Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

8. “Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

9. “Become more humble as the market goes your way.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

10. “The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

11. “The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

12. “Now is always the hardest time to invest.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

13. “Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. 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 M. Baruch

14. “Never follow the crowd.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

15. “Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

16. “When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

17. “We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

18. “We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

19. “The stock market is people.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

20. “Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

21. “We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

22. “No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

23. “Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

24. “Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

25. “I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

26. “Always do one thing less than you think you can do.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

27. “Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

28. “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 M. Baruch

29. “Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

30. “Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

31. “Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

32. “You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

33. “Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

34. “Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

35. “You can’t repeal human nature by an Act of Congress.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

36. “All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

37. “Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

38. “Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

39. “Financial storm definitely passed.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

40. “Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

41. “When the outlook is steeped in pessimism, I remind myself, “Two and two still make four, and you can’t keep humankind down for long.””

— Bernard M. Baruch

42. “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 M. Baruch

43. “No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

44. “I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

45. “Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

46. “A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

47. “I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

48. “There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man’s reasoning powers.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

49. “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 M. Baruch

50. “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 M. Baruch