Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity. — B. C. Forbes Able 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… — 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
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life. — B. C. Forbes Golf Copy Share Image
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck. — B. C. Forbes Bother Copy Share Image
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. — B. C. Forbes Business Copy Share Image
The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who… — B. C. Forbes Bible Copy Share Image
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. — B. C. Forbes Army Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress. — B. C. Forbes Currents 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
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that… — B. C. Forbes Arrangements 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
To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals… — B. C. Forbes Blow 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
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
Courtesy is doing that which nothing under the sun makes you do but human kindness. Courtesy springs from the heart; if the… — B. C. Forbes Action 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 Chosen Copy Share Image
It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain… — B. C. Forbes Cases Copy Share Image
How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to… — B. C. Forbes America Copy Share Image
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 Courage Copy Share Image
Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to… — B. C. Forbes Action Copy Share Image
The bell of public opinion is today making the Morgan-Rockefeller-Vanderbilt class jump. Nor are the strongest of our corporations immune. The railroads… — B. C. Forbes Bells Copy Share Image
A young financial writer once brought ridicule upon himself by stating that a certain company had nothing to commend it except excellent… — B. C. Forbes Be good 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
Talking things over has its place in an organization [but] so-called conferences are being grossly overdone. One executive stops at the desk… — B. C. Forbes Afternoon 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 Achievement 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
When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder.… — B. C. Forbes Advertising Copy Share Image
Is America becoming decadent? Do we no longer regard our promises and pledges as sacred? ... We promised to make peace with… — B. C. Forbes Advantage Copy Share Image
A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things… — B. C. Forbes 40th birthday Copy Share Image
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