“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
“Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.”
“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
“Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?”
“You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.”
“If you have made a mistake cut your losses as quickly as possible.”
“Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.”
“The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.”
“The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.”
“Become more humble as the market goes your way.”
“Now is always the hardest time to invest.”
“Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.”
“We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.”
“Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.”
“Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.”
“When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.”
“We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.”
“Never follow the crowd.”
“Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.”
“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.”
“The stock market is people.”
“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.”
“I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.”
“Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.”
“Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.”
“Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.”
“We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.”
“No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won’t let him.”
“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.””
“All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.”
“Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.”
“Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.”
“Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.”
“Financial storm definitely passed.”
“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.”
“Bears don’t live on Park Avenue.”
“You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.”
“Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.”
“Always do one thing less than you think you can do.”
“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.”
“No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.”
“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.”
“We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.”
“You can’t repeal human nature by an Act of Congress.”
“I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.”
“Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.”
“Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.”
“Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.”
“There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.”
“There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man’s reasoning powers.”
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