A biography for Bernard Baruchhasn’t been written yet.
“A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.”
“The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.”
“In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.”
“Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.”
“Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.”
“Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.”
“The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.”
“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
“We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.”
“I made my money by selling too soon.”
“Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.”
“Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.”
“You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.”
“Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.”
“During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.”
“No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.”
“If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.”
“Always do one thing less than you think you can do.”
“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
“We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.”