Men Quotes by B. C. Forbes

Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.

— B. C. Forbes

The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.

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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.

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There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work,…

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Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of…

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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to…

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The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to…

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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,…

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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism...…

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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall…

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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage,…

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The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel…

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Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to…

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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

Courtesy is doing that which nothing under the sun makes you do but human kindness. Courtesy springs from the heart; if the…

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Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with…

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Enthusiasm is the parent of enterprise. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization…

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Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the…

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I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age.…

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A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things…

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A young financial writer once brought ridicule upon himself by stating that a certain company had nothing to commend it except excellent…

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A big business man was telling Henry Ford about a coach driver of super-expertness with his whip. The driver was telling how…

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A certain ultra-dignified gentleman of unusual prominence carried himself so stiffly that nobody felt free to call him by his first name.…

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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…

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For my part, I rather distrust men or concerns that rise up with the speed of rockets. Sudden rises are sometimes followed…

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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…

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Many concerns now make part or the whole of their dividends from by-products that formerly went to waste. How do we, as…

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J.P. Morgan, then past 70, was asked by the son of an eminent father why he [Morgan] didn't retire. When did your…

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Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of…

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It is well for civilization that human beings constantly strive to gain greater and greater rewards, for it is this urge, this…

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Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from…

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The young man who addresses himself in stern earnest to organizing his life-his habits, his associations, his reading, his study, his work-stands…

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...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in…

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Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The…

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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit,…

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I don't feel myself that I Know it all, but I have enough conceit to be successful. That observation was made by…

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Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the…

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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…

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How many men I know who are earning dollars aplenty, but who are really earning little of what counts. They are so…

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