Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind. — B. C. Forbes Dividends Copy Share Image
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for? — B. C. Forbes Ifs Copy Share Image
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal. — B. C. Forbes Basketball 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
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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 Decision Copy Share Image
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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older. — B. C. Forbes Grows 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
Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts… — B. C. Forbes Christmas 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 Busy 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
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 Absence 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 Accomplish 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 Alive 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 Betting Copy Share Image
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What would you call America's most priceless asset? Surely not its limitless natural resources, not its matchless national wealth, not its unequalled… — B. C. Forbes America 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
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 Amount Copy Share Image
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… — B. C. Forbes Achieve Copy Share Image
Which is more worthwhile earning: a large fortune or the esteem and gratitude of the nation? This question is prompted anew by… — B. C. Forbes Accounts Copy Share Image
Employers, have you ever stopped to reckon what the goodwill of your workers is worth? ... In most large concerns it would… — B. C. Forbes Animated Copy Share Image
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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
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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 Certain Copy Share Image
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