Bernard Baruch

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. ”

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible. ”

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed. ”

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles. ”

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. ”

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit. ”

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought. ”

Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock. ”

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself. ”

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