The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. — B. C. Forbes Conscience 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
If you do the best and the most you can today, don't worry about tomorrow. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys. — B. C. Forbes Friend 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
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
Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall… — B. C. Forbes 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
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 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 Copy Share Image
Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious… — B. C. Forbes Democracy Copy Share Image
The fittest, not the richest, make the most enviable mark. Pampered sons of plutocrats may shine for a time in society, but… — B. C. Forbes Affair Copy Share Image
A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and… — B. C. Forbes Acceptance Copy Share Image
That which is useless dies. Animals that fail to serve some useful purpose in the scheme of things slowly but surely become… — B. C. Forbes Animal Copy Share Image
It is well for civilization that human beings constantly strive to gain greater and greater rewards, for it is this urge, this… — B. C. Forbes Achievement Copy Share Image
Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from… — B. C. Forbes 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 Copy Share Image
The young man who addresses himself in stern earnest to organizing his life-his habits, his associations, his reading, his study, his work-stands… — B. C. Forbes Ability Copy Share Image
Here's a pointer culled from the careers of men who have attained notable success: Don't sit in your office during the hours… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Which is more worthwhile earning: a large fortune or the esteem and gratitude of the nation? This question is prompted anew by… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Has your work become very easy? Do you find you can do it with little effort? Has it ceased to impose any… — B. C. Forbes 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Had I not gone through the ordeal, in more than one country, of landing a job, I would he tempted to lose… — B. C. Forbes Country Copy Share Image
The most famous self-made man in the world today is our own Edison. Talk with Mr. Edison and he will tell you… — 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 bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. — B. C. Forbes Bargain Copy Share Image
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive. — B. C. Forbes Credit 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
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey. — B. C. Forbes 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
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