Bernard Baruch's Quotes

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

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

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

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

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

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

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

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

Never follow the crowd.

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

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.

During my eighty-seven years 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 you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

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

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

The more a woman likes her job, the better her self-image and the more she enjoys her life.

The things women find rewarding about work are, by and large, the same things that men find rewarding and include both the inherent nature of the work and the social relationships.

For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.

I am a proud Montrealer. Jobs will take me where they take me, but nothing will ever be able to convince me to leave my home.

I enjoy acting, and it's given me a ton of happiness and it's affected my life and my family's lives in ways that we just can't imagine.

I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies.

I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.

If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.

Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.

Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.

No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with.

There's a chunk of myself in every part I play.

I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

I'm a massive movie nerd. That being said, I could retire tomorrow because I wrote this movie 'Goon' and it came out, and it connected and it's a wonderful flick that I think is beautiful and then it had this wonderful life and it means a lot to a lot of people.

The hockey I was raised on, the hockey I understand, the hockey that my dad taught me about when I was a boy was intrinsically connected with fighting. I grew up in a house where we revered tough guys.