76 Quotes by Bernard M. Baruch

Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.

Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.

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.

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.

A man can’t retire his experience.

Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

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

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.