Bernard Baruch
Bernard Baruch
Bernard Mannes Baruchwas an American financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters and became a philanthropist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth19 August 1870
CountryUnited States of America
Bernard Baruch quotes about
war today cold
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
war men weaponry
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
war shooting cold
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
peace war world-destruction
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
freedom
In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
american-businessman
If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.
man
There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.
man wrong
Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
age age-and-aging older
Old age is always 15 years older than I am.
thinking effort one-thing
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
believe years two
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.
doe needs socialism
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.
strong new-york spring
Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by the New York Federal Reserve bank, in the spring of 1927, to cut the rediscount rate. Benjamin Strong, Governor of the bank, was chief advocate of this unwise measure, which was taken largely at the behest of Montagu Norman of the Bank of England....At the time of the Banks action I warned of its consequences....I felt that sooner or later the market had to break.
government people citizens
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.