B. C. Forbes famous quotes

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Business #Motivation #Inspiration

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Inspirational #Opportunity #Doors

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Inspirational #Perseverance #Courage

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Lying #Fate #Hands

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Business #Real #Riches

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Jealousy #Cancer #Jealous

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Faith #Confidence #Courage

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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#Greed #World #Rich

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Leadership #Men #Order

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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#Cheating #Deception #Cheated

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 fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Success #Crush #Memories

It's so much easier to do good than to be good.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Goodness #Easier #Be Good

Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Hard Work #Thinking #Careers

Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Honesty #Character #Belief

Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Children #Fate #World

A shady business never yields a sunny life.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Yield #Shady #Sunny

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Life #Golf #Hazards

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Triumph #Defeat

To make headway, improve your head.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Habit

A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Appreciation #Accomplish

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Men #Cost #Poverty

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Motivational #Writing #Men

The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Dream #Determination #People

Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
-- B. C. Forbes

#People #Moral #Manners

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Satisfaction #Firsts #Credit

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Inspirational #Spring #Autumn

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Business #Order #Driven

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Motivational #Adversity #Challenges

Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Opportunity #Men #Way

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Basketball #Jobs #Coal

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Positive #Meat #Dessert

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Workout #Sleep #Tired

I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Retirement #Business #Age

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Business #Too Late #Life Is

Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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#Sweetest

In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Race #Important #Speed

How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Race #Important #Speed