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Bernard Baruch Quotes

1870–1965 United States

Bernard Mannes Baruch (19 August 1870 – 20 June 1965) was an American financier, stock market speculator, statesman, and presidential advisor. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising Democratic presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D.

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Also known as: Baruch, Bernard, Bernard Mannes Baruch

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A Political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

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

Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.

Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions. We must embrace international cooperation or international disintegration.

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.

Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible—as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bernard Baruch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.