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One Quotes by B. C. Forbes
- Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
- Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few…
- Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the…
- The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one…
- To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying,…
- Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction…
- 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 agree that what…
- He is a wise man who seeks by every legitimate means to make all the money he can honestly, for money can do so many…
- How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to be a self-starter…
- When you delve deep enough, you find that practically every great fortune and great enterprise in America have sprung from the courageous enterprise of some…
- Happiness is normally the prime search of every rational human being. One way to derive increasing happiness during the year we have just entered is…
- Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
- There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one's best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the…
- The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick,…
- The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
- Accuse American businessmen of being responsible for radicalism and they would indignantly deny the accusation. Yet, in one fundamental sense, they are responsible. They are…
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