Quote

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

Bernard Baruch

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bernard Baruch
Age: 94 †
Born: 1870
Born: August 19
Died: 1965
Died: June 20
Banker
Economist
Entrepreneur
Financier
Politician
Stockbroker
Trader
Camden
South Carolina
Bernard M. Baruch
Bernard Baruch
B. M. Baruch
B.M. Baruch
Thinking
World
Zero
Charity
State
States
Nothing
Men
Think

More quotes by Bernard Baruch

Image
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
Bernard Baruch
Image
We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
Bernard Baruch
Image
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Bernard Baruch
Image
So efficient are the available instruments of slavery fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.
Bernard Baruch
Image
America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path...
Bernard Baruch
Image
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
Bernard Baruch
Image
Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.
Bernard Baruch
Image
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
Bernard Baruch
Image
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
Bernard Baruch
Image
I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .
Bernard Baruch
Image
Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
Bernard Baruch
Image
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
Bernard Baruch
Image
Never follow the crowd.
Bernard Baruch
Image
The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today's earnings for the future. 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
Image
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 Baruch
Image
A man can't retire his experience.
Bernard Baruch
Image
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers.
Bernard Baruch
Image
Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
Bernard Baruch
Image
When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
Bernard Baruch
Image
Bears don't live on Park Avenue.
Bernard Baruch