Bernard Baruch Quotes - Page 4

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.

Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.

Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.

I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it.

Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions. We must embrace international cooperation or international disintegration. Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

A man can't retire his experience.

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

I never lost money by turning a profit.

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.

We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.

Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.

We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.

There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.

You can't repeal human nature by an Act of Congress.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

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

The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England

Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.

You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.

Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

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.

Financial storm definitely passed.

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.