Bernard Baruch

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.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.

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.

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

Never answer a critic, unless he's right.

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

Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.