Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be. — B. C. Forbes Manners Copy Share Image
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world. — B. C. Forbes Avarice Copy Share Image
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her. — B. C. Forbes Fortune Copy Share Image
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success. — B. C. Forbes Chains Copy Share Image
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive. — B. C. Forbes Credit Copy Share Image
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. — B. C. Forbes Bargain Copy Share Image
Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well… — B. C. Forbes Calmness 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 Adventure 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 Courage 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 Brother Copy Share Image
I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of… — B. C. Forbes Approval Copy Share Image
To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith. — B. C. Forbes Backbone 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
The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give… — B. C. Forbes Biblical Copy Share Image
If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative… — B. C. Forbes Board of directors 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 Achievement Copy Share Image
He is a wise man who seeks by every legitimate means to make all the money he can honestly, for money can… — B. C. Forbes Advantage 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 Business Copy Share Image
The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them… Think… — 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 American business Copy Share Image
A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Many men who do creditable things refuse to let it be known. This is a mistake. While we all admire modesty, nevertheless… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The more I move among workers and factories and other plants, the stronger I become convinced that it is advisable to have… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Vacations for wage earners have proved both popular with workers and profitable for employers. Unfortunately, the majority of large employers have not… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Managing the other fellow's business is a fascinating game. Trade unionists all over the country have pronounced ideas for the reform of… — B. C. Forbes Affair Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake for presidents and other leading executives of organizations having branches throughout the country to chain themselves to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Henry Ward Beecher, so the story goes, was once asked by a young preacher how he could keep his congregation wide awake… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Whenever calamity howlers shake their heads and impress upon you that this, that, and the next dire catastrophe is to befall this… — B. C. Forbes Bridges Copy Share Image
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. — B. C. Forbes Conscience Copy Share Image
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. — B. C. Forbes Autumn Copy Share Image
When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate. — B. C. Forbes Betting Copy Share Image
If you do the best and the most you can today, don't worry about tomorrow. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys. — B. C. Forbes Friend Copy Share Image
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