Bernard M.Baruch knows as Bernard Mannes Baruch was a famous American financier and statesman known for selling his shares during worldwar. He was the presidential adviser for President Woodrow Wilson in national defense and peace. Baruch College of the City University of New York was named for him. The Saratoga Race Course named the Bernard Baruch Handicap in his honor. He was referenced in an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show (Season 2, Episode 28 “Divorce”), Leave It To Beaver, The Patti Duke Show, Make Room for Daddy as well as in The Burns and Allen Show and the 1959 Art Buchwald book, A Gift From the Boys. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1933 by Oglethorpe University. Here are some of the best Quotes of Bernard M.Baruch to inspire you.
1.“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
2.“Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.”
3.“Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?”
4.“Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.”
5.“Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts”
6.“Never follow the crowd.”
7.“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
8.“Two things are bad for the heart—running up stairs and running down people.”
Life quotes from Bernard M.Baruch
9.“The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.”
10.“To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
11.“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. ”
12.“The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.”
13.“I never lost money by turning a profit.”
14.“I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.”
15.“Something that everyone knows isn’t worth anything.”
16.“I made my money by selling too soon.”
17.“Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.”
18.“One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.”
19.“Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.”
20. “We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.”
21.“Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.”
22.“You don’t have to blow out the other person’s light to let your own shine.”