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 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
Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer. — B. C. Forbes Cancer Copy Share Image
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal. — B. C. Forbes Basketball Copy Share Image
A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively,… — B. C. Forbes Decision 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
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
The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to… — B. C. Forbes Affection 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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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 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
Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of… — B. C. Forbes Achievement Copy Share Image
How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the… — B. C. Forbes 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
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
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
With all thy getting, get understanding, is the banner under which these Forbes editorials have appeared since the first issue of the… — B. C. Forbes 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 Copy Share Image
The man who is bigger than his job keeps cool. He does not lose his head, he refuses to become rattled, to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
What one thing does the world need most today-apart, that is, from the all-inclusive thing we call righteousness? Aren't you inclined to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Employers, have you ever stopped to reckon what the goodwill of your workers is worth? ... In most large concerns it would… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
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