Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind. — B. C. Forbes Dividends Copy Share Image
Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world. — B. C. Forbes Child Copy Share Image
Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas. — B. C. Forbes Christmas Copy Share Image
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others. — B. C. Forbes Goodwill Copy Share Image
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter. — B. C. Forbes Best opportunity Copy Share Image
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion. — B. C. Forbes Adversity 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… — B. C. Forbes Determination Copy Share Image
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life. — B. C. Forbes Golf Copy Share Image
Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your… — 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 Complexes 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 Affair Copy Share Image
The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who… — B. C. Forbes Bible Copy Share Image
The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing… — B. C. Forbes Accomplishment Copy Share Image
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. — B. C. Forbes Army Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress. — 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
A nation's economic salvation does not lie in the amount of money its rich inhabitants can squander recklessly. A nation's economic salvation… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Do too many executives still indulge in the short-sighted habit of issuing orders without taking the slightest pains to explain to those… — B. C. Forbes Care Copy Share Image
I resolve for 1920 to sit down all by myself and take a personal stock-taking once a month. To be no more… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to… — B. C. Forbes America Copy Share Image
When you delve deep enough, you find that practically every great fortune and great enterprise in America have sprung from the courageous… — B. C. Forbes America 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 Action Copy Share Image
Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be… — 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
If the World War [I] demonstrated anything it was that government ownership is fraught with the gravest dangers and usually leads to… — B. C. Forbes Animal Copy Share Image
Henry Ford has several times sneered at unproductive stockholders… Well, now. Let's see. Who made Henry Ford's own automobile company possible? The… — B. C. Forbes Automobile Copy Share Image
Happiness is normally the prime search of every rational human being. One way to derive increasing happiness during the year we have… — 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
Talking things over has its place in an organization [but] so-called conferences are being grossly overdone. One executive stops at the desk… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
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