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 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
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
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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 Copy Share Image
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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 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
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With all thy getting, get understanding, is the banner under which these Forbes editorials have appeared since the first issue of the… — 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
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