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
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… — B. C. Forbes Achieve 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
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
A big business man was telling Henry Ford about a coach driver of super-expertness with his whip. The driver was telling how… — B. C. Forbes Behinds Copy Share Image
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious. — B. C. Forbes Cheated Copy Share Image
Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind. — B. C. Forbes Dividends 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… — B. C. Forbes Certain 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
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
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
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
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 America 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 Able Copy Share Image
The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give… — B. C. Forbes Biblical 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 Attempting 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
...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
Had I not gone through the ordeal, in more than one country, of landing a job, I would he tempted to lose… — B. C. Forbes Country 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
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
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
