Bernard Baruch

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

"A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs."

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

"To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am."

"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."

"Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer."

"Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter."