Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of… — B. C. Forbes Determination Copy Share Image
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter. — B. C. Forbes Best opportunity Copy Share Image
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. — B. C. Forbes Accomplish Copy Share Image
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion. — B. C. Forbes Adversity 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
Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world. — B. C. Forbes Child Copy Share Image
Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving. — B. C. Forbes Christmas 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
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
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
Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with… — B. C. Forbes Birth 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 Accidents Copy Share Image
We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness. — B. C. Forbes Enjoy Copy Share Image
The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares… — B. C. Forbes Care Copy Share Image
Thomas Edison reads not for entertainment but to increase his store of knowledge. He sucks in information as eagerly as the bee… — B. C. Forbes Available 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
Enthusiasm is the parent of enterprise. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization… — B. C. Forbes Birth 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
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 Achievement 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
A willing, cheerful worker, with his heart in his job, will turn out more work and more satisfactory work in 44 hours… — B. C. Forbes Business 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 Conquer Copy Share Image
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
If the World War [I] demonstrated anything it was that government ownership is fraught with the gravest dangers and usually leads to… — B. C. Forbes Animal 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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The man who is bigger than his job keeps cool. He does not lose his head, he refuses to become rattled, to… — B. C. Forbes Able 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 Activity Copy Share Image
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