Bernard Mannes Baruch Quotes

...I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

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

Two things are bad for the heart — running up stairs and running down people.

I made my money by selling too soon.

I never lost money by turning a profit.

Something that everyone knows isn't worth anything.

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

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