Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism...… — B. C. Forbes Brother Copy Share Image
Many concerns now make part or the whole of their dividends from by-products that formerly went to waste. How do we, as… — B. C. Forbes Concern 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
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become… — B. C. Forbes Discouraged Copy Share Image
It is easier to start taxes than to stop them. A tax an inch long can easily become a yard long. That… — B. C. Forbes Administration Copy Share Image
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal,… — B. C. Forbes Air 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
Accuse American businessmen of being responsible for radicalism and they would indignantly deny the accusation. Yet, in one fundamental sense, they are… — B. C. Forbes Accusation Copy Share Image
Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive… — B. C. Forbes Adventure Copy Share Image
I resolve for 1920 to sit down all by myself and take a personal stock-taking once a month. To be no more… — B. C. Forbes Addresses 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
There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work,… — B. C. Forbes Found Copy Share Image
The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel… — B. C. Forbes Achievement Copy Share Image
Inflationary trends are under way. Wage increases, through strikes or threatened strikes, are rampant. Government expenditures are ballooning ominously. Hoarding has contributed… — B. C. Forbes America Copy Share Image
Vacations for wage earners have proved both popular with workers and profitable for employers. Unfortunately, the majority of large employers have not… — B. C. Forbes Abandoned 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
It is a great mistake for presidents and other leading executives of organizations having branches throughout the country to chain themselves to… — B. C. Forbes Bigs Copy Share Image
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others. — B. C. Forbes Generosity Copy Share Image
A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish. — B. C. Forbes Accomplish Copy Share Image
The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing… — B. C. Forbes Accomplishment Copy Share Image
