Bernard Baruch Quotes

But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.

There are just lots of possibilities in the world...I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.

The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.

But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei

We don't make mistakes; we just have happy accidents.

Plan for the worst, expect the best.

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.

It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.

I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in these things. It was with some amazement that I realized I was one of the few people in the world who really believed in these things without going around making a dull middle class philosophy out of it. I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.

I do not give up, I never give up, for there is nothing in this entire world that is irrevocably unchangeable.

I'm an easy person to get along with. Even when I struggle, I have the same attitude.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.

Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start out that life with a disappontment. Live your life so that whenever you lose you are ahead.

It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

My grandmother always would say, "This, too, shall pass." It is always true.

There are only two kinds of plans. Plans that might work and plans that won't work... you have to take a plan that might work and make it work.

A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!

Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations

In this life, anything can happen - and what can help bring it to pass is Hope

Tomorrow is another day. I've got plenty of things to worry about right now.

To truly prepare for the unexpected, you've got to position yourself to keep a couple of options open so when the door of opportunity opens, you're close enough to squeeze through.

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.