Bernard Mannes Baruch Quotes

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

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

Never follow the crowd.

I never lost money by turning a profit.

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

I made my money by selling too soon.

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

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

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.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

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

...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.

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

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

Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?