Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively,… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work,… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage,… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism...… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is the parent of enterprise. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age.… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
J.P. Morgan, then past 70, was asked by the son of an eminent father why he [Morgan] didn't retire. When did your… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Courtesy is doing that which nothing under the sun makes you do but human kindness. Courtesy springs from the heart; if the… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Many concerns now make part or the whole of their dividends from by-products that formerly went to waste. How do we, as… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Frank W. Woolworth once told me that the turning-point in his career did not come until he was thrown flat on his… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The man who is bigger than his job keeps cool. He does not lose his head, he refuses to become rattled, to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
After visiting several of America's most fashionable playgrounds, I have reached the conclusion that men who work hard enjoy life most. The… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
A young financial writer once brought ridicule upon himself by stating that a certain company had nothing to commend it except excellent… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
A big business man was telling Henry Ford about a coach driver of super-expertness with his whip. The driver was telling how… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage,… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I don't feel myself that I Know it all, but I have enough conceit to be successful. That observation was made by… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
America, in the eyes of the world, typifies above all else this quality of initiative. The greatest successes are nearly all the… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
How many men I know who are earning dollars aplenty, but who are really earning little of what counts. They are so… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit,… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
It is well for civilization that human beings constantly strive to gain greater and greater rewards, for it is this urge, this… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The young man who addresses himself in stern earnest to organizing his life-his habits, his associations, his reading, his study, his work-stands… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share
What one thing does the world need most today-apart, that is, from the all-inclusive thing we call righteousness? Aren't you inclined to agree that… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share
Are soft-hearted people handicapped in business? You have heard a businessman say of someone else, He's all right, but he's too soft-hearted… To be… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share
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A big business man was telling Henry Ford about a coach driver of super-expertness with his whip. The driver was telling how he could… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share
Timing is everything. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he is likely to go… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share
To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share
There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share
Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share
Are your desires purely selfish? Do your tastes run to a grand home, automobiles, fine clothes, an abundance of amusements, and so forth? If… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share
When you delve deep enough, you find that practically every great fortune and great enterprise in America have sprung from the courageous enterprise of… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share
It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first and second… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share
The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share
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