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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious. — B. C. Forbes Cheated 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
If you do the best and the most you can today, don't worry about tomorrow. — B. C. Forbes Do the best 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 Lady luck Copy Share Image
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The fellow who isn't fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired. — B. C. Forbes Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to… — B. C. Forbes Affection 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
...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
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 Important 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 Application 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 Biting Copy Share Image
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
A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and… — B. C. Forbes Acceptance Copy Share Image
Here's a pointer culled from the careers of men who have attained notable success: Don't sit in your office during the hours… — B. C. Forbes Amount Copy Share Image
Are your desires purely selfish? Do your tastes run to a grand home, automobiles, fine clothes, an abundance of amusements, and so… — B. C. Forbes Abundance 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
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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
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Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon… — B. C. Forbes Calamity Copy Share Image
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The most famous self-made man in the world today is our own Edison. Talk with Mr. Edison and he will tell you… — B. C. Forbes Articles Copy Share Image
Are soft-hearted people handicapped in business? You have heard a businessman say of someone else, He's all right, but he's too soft-hearted…… — B. C. Forbes Business Copy Share Image
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