Bernard Baruch Quotes

Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.

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

Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all… Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot–or if you do not know how to improve on things–then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.

I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.

It is far more difficult… to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

A man can’t retire his experience.