Bernard Baruch

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace. ”

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. ”

If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong. ”

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. ”

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

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am. ”

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. ”

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs. ”

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. ”