Quote

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

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
Movement
Economic
Nature
Movements
Motivated
Crowd
Psychology
Investing
Crowds

More quotes by Bernard Baruch

Image
There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
Bernard Baruch
Image
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
Bernard Baruch
Image
Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
Bernard Baruch
Image
Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.
Bernard Baruch
Image
A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future. What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made? In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world's greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.
Bernard Baruch
Image
Bears don't live on Park Avenue.
Bernard Baruch
Image
Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.
Bernard Baruch
Image
If you have made a mistake cut your losses as quickly as possible.
Bernard Baruch
Image
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
Bernard Baruch
Image
It is far more difficult... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
Bernard Baruch
Image
Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
Bernard Baruch
Image
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
Bernard Baruch
Image
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
Bernard Baruch
Image
Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers. Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters - or anyone - bringing gifts of 'inside' information or tips. Don't try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.
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
Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
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
You can't repeal human nature by an Act of Congress.
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
I never lost money by turning a profit.
Bernard Baruch