To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
For my part, I rather distrust men or concerns that rise up with the speed of rockets. Sudden rises are sometimes followed… — B. C. Forbes 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 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 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it. What's worth… — B. C. Forbes 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 Copy Share Image
Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be… — 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 Copy Share Image
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
It is well for civilization that human beings constantly strive to gain greater and greater rewards, for it is this urge, this… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The fittest, not the richest, make the most enviable mark. Pampered sons of plutocrats may shine for a time in society, but… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills. — B. C. Forbes 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 agree that… — B. C. Forbes 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.... To be… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with earnestness of… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
A big business man was telling Henry Ford about a coach driver of super-expertness with his whip. The driver was telling how he could… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Timing is everything. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he is likely to go… — B. C. Forbes 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 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 and greater… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital… — B. C. Forbes 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 forth? If… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
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