76 Quotes by Bernard M. Baruch

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.

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.

The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.

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

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

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

So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.

Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.