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
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 American business 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
What would you call America's most priceless asset? Surely not its limitless natural resources, not its matchless national wealth, not its unequalled… — B. C. Forbes America 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
Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be. — B. C. Forbes Manners 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
Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world. — B. C. Forbes Children 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
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
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
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
A nation's economic salvation does not lie in the amount of money its rich inhabitants can squander recklessly. A nation's economic salvation… — B. C. Forbes Amount 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
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
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
If the deal isn't good for the other party, it isn't good for you. — B. C. Forbes Deals 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
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
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
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
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
