B. C. Forbes

Quotes

• “Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have...”
• “Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself looked it full in the face an...”
• “Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and if you know anything about their careers...”
• “Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation by actual experience in the school of life by ceaseless alertness t...”
• “How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on ...”
• “Pity the human being who is not able to connect faith within himself with the infinite.... He who has faith has ... an i...”
• “Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful business giants and ... you will be struck by the fact that alm...”
• “Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy shuns the...”
• “Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast a man consum...”
• “The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty esteem cordiality sympathy affection readine...”
• “It is when things go hardest when life becomes most trying that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal. When f...”
• “The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness en...”
• “Are you doing the kind of work you were built for so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that ki...”
• “The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course and has the courage and self-control to adhe...”
• “History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed...”
• “Turn resolutely to work to recreation or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going t...”
• “The man who has done his level best and who is conscious that he has done his best is a success even though the world...”
• “The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things who were not afraid to risk failur...”
• “Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to ...”
• “Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.”
• “Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement the less perfect our success.”
• “Money or even power can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.”
• “Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong able alert men go after opportunity.”
• “The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.”
• “When it comes to betting on yourself ... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.”
• “Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly enthusiastically unremittingly woo her.”
• “Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.”
• “The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.”
• “Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.”
• “He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.”
• “The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.”
• “If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.”
• “Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.”
• “You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.”
• “Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.”
• “Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.”
• “Real riches are the riches possessed inside.”
• “The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.”
• “Jealousy... is a mental cancer.”