The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. — B. C. Forbes Business Copy Share Image
Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving. — B. C. Forbes Christmas Copy Share Image
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world. — B. C. Forbes Child 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
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others. — B. C. Forbes Goodwill Copy Share Image
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion. — B. C. Forbes Adversity Copy Share Image
The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares… — B. C. Forbes Care 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
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
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
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
Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age.… — B. C. Forbes Affair Copy Share Image
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to… — B. C. Forbes Big things Copy Share Image
Do too many executives still indulge in the short-sighted habit of issuing orders without taking the slightest pains to explain to those… — B. C. Forbes Care 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
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 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
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 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 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
A certain ultra-dignified gentleman of unusual prominence carried himself so stiffly that nobody felt free to call him by his first name.… — B. C. Forbes 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 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
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 Copy Share Image
If the World War [I] demonstrated anything it was that government ownership is fraught with the gravest dangers and usually leads to… — B. C. Forbes Animal Copy Share Image
Henry Ford has several times sneered at unproductive stockholders… Well, now. Let's see. Who made Henry Ford's own automobile company possible? The… — B. C. Forbes Automobile 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 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 Copy Share Image
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