128 Quotes by Bernard Baruch

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.

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

America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path.

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

Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.

Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.

Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.

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

Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject, ethics, logic, philosophy, the humanities and sociology, in fact everything that is part of how we live and react to one another.