B. C. Forbes Quotes
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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 pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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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.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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The bell of public opinion is today making the Morgan-Rockefeller-Vanderbilt class jump. Nor are the strongest of our corporations immune. The railroads have had to jump pretty lively, and certain gigantic industrial combinations are also being put through their paces.
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The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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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.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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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.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.