Bernard Baruch Quotes

Let us gather facts in order to get ourselves thinking.

Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

The most difficult thing for a manager to determine is when a fact is really a fact.

A right decision at the wrong time is a wrong decision.

I have to take decisions—not back hunches.

To govern well, one must see things as they are.

Do not speculate; get data and calculate.

Get the facts. Let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner.

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.

Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem!

When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fingertips. If they're all in Google somewhere, you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment.

Delay is preferable to error.

I think the only difference between me and other people is that when I hear of an interesting historical incident, I immediately write it down and Google it.

I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

I love researching, I love interviewing.