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Famous Bernard Baruch Quotes
“Don't try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.”
“I'll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.”
“It is far more difficult... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.”
“Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.”
“Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.”
“All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.”
“Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.”
“Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees.”
“We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.”
“Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.”
“Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.”
“Don't speculate unless you can make it a full time job.”
“Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.”
“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
“Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.”
“Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.”
“Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.”
“Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.”
“Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.”
“The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.”
“We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.”
“Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.”
“When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.”
“A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.”