Bernard Baruch Quotes

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

When the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it?

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

Zeroing in on the best sectors or the best regions of the world is great, but zeroing in on the very best individual stocks is the key to making truly impressive profits.

I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.

I have yet to take capital losses on any company. Then again, it's still early.

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

You can't manage Wall Street. Wall Street has its own viewpoints on everything. I have always believed, if you manage your business correctly, Wall Street will take care of itself.

Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment.

When I first got into business, I made a lot of bad decisions.

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

In any business opportunity, you'd be looking, probably, primarily at the risk and return. Some business can be very risky with a low return; what you want is the lowest risk with the biggest return.

Don't bottom fish.

We make a series of investments, some will pan out and some won't.

I have almost no interest in quarterly reports. Running a business or investing in a business based on quarterly earnings doesn't make any sense at all to me.

As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.

Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business.

Speculation, in its broadest sense, is not an evil in itself, but the contrary, and relieves public distress far oftener than it creates it.

The best way to become wealthy is through trade