The fellow who isn't fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired. — B. C. Forbes Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent. — B. C. Forbes Indifferent Copy Share Image
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results. — B. C. Forbes Automobile Copy Share Image
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him. — B. C. Forbes Anger Copy Share Image
Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of… — B. C. Forbes Blind Copy Share Image
Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be. — B. C. Forbes Manners Copy Share Image
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world. — B. C. Forbes Avarice Copy Share Image
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her. — B. C. Forbes Fortune 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 Important Copy Share Image
Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very… — B. C. Forbes Able 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
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well… — B. C. Forbes Calmness 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
I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of… — B. C. Forbes Approval Copy Share Image
There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one's best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really… — B. C. Forbes Care 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
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
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 Accomplish 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
I don't feel myself that I Know it all, but I have enough conceit to be successful. That observation was made by… — B. C. Forbes Assurance Copy Share Image
Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the… — B. C. Forbes Benefits Copy Share Image
He is a wise man who seeks by every legitimate means to make all the money he can honestly, for money can… — B. C. Forbes Advantage Copy Share Image
How many men I know who are earning dollars aplenty, but who are really earning little of what counts. They are so… — B. C. Forbes Business Copy Share Image
If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative… — B. C. Forbes Board of directors 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
Managing the other fellow's business is a fascinating game. Trade unionists all over the country have pronounced ideas for the reform of… — B. C. Forbes Affair Copy Share Image
Many men who do creditable things refuse to let it be known. This is a mistake. While we all admire modesty, nevertheless… — B. C. Forbes Admire Copy Share Image
The more I move among workers and factories and other plants, the stronger I become convinced that it is advisable to have… — B. C. Forbes Advisable 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
The British have their own conception of what constitutes the typical American. He must have a flavor of the Wild West about… — B. C. Forbes Action Copy Share Image
Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with… — B. C. Forbes Adequate 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
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success. — B. C. Forbes Chains Copy Share Image
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey. — B. C. Forbes Arrived Copy Share Image
If the deal isn't good for the other party, it isn't good for you. — B. C. Forbes Deal Copy Share Image
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. — B. C. Forbes Bargain 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
When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate. — B. C. Forbes Betting Copy Share Image
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious. — B. C. Forbes Cheated Copy Share Image
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