The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. — B. C. Forbes Business Copy Share Image
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him. — B. C. Forbes Anger Copy Share Image
The fellow who isn't fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired. — B. C. Forbes Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results. — B. C. Forbes Automobile 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 Blind Copy Share Image
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious… — B. C. Forbes Democracy Copy Share Image
There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that… — B. C. Forbes Arrangements Copy Share Image
To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals… — 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
How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others. — B. C. Forbes Generosity Copy Share Image
The bell of public opinion is today making the Morgan-Rockefeller-Vanderbilt class jump. Nor are the strongest of our corporations immune. The railroads… — B. C. Forbes Bells Copy Share Image
Whenever possible, I like to have the supreme head of a company show me over the works. It is extremely illuminating to… — B. C. Forbes Attitude 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 Action 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 Courage 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 Achievement Copy Share Image
A willing, cheerful worker, with his heart in his job, will turn out more work and more satisfactory work in 44 hours… — B. C. Forbes Business Copy Share Image
First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it. What's worth… — 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 Assurance Copy Share Image
Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall… — B. C. Forbes Achievement Copy Share Image
Timing is everything. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he is likely… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
A certain ultra-dignified gentleman of unusual prominence carried himself so stiffly that nobody felt free to call him by his first name.… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder.… — B. C. Forbes Advertising Copy Share Image
For my part, I rather distrust men or concerns that rise up with the speed of rockets. Sudden rises are sometimes followed… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
New Year, the season for changes in positions and advances in salaries, approaches. If you have in your employ some who deserve… — B. C. Forbes Approach Copy Share Image
Is America becoming decadent? Do we no longer regard our promises and pledges as sacred? ... We promised to make peace with… — B. C. Forbes Advantage Copy Share Image
It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
