B. C. Forbes Quotes

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

B. C. Forbes

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• You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • You
  • Understand
  • Credit

• Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Practice
  • Humility
  • Credit

• I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Song
  • Drama

• Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.

  

  Larry David
  • Myself
  • Given
  • Credit

• Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Good
  • Wealth
  • Satisfaction

• People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Time
  • Credit

• My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Character
  • Way
  • Works

• We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Done
  • Credit
  • Gotten

• People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • People
  • Believe
  • Credit

• Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • World
  • Travel
  • Better

• I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Me
  • Thought
  • Tennis

• I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Live
  • Nature

• I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Family
  • Necessary
  • Keeping

• A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Real
  • Morning
  • Sound

• Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Name

• Actors get to go to these amazing worlds. In 'Terminator,' I was a cyborg with feelings; in 'Avatar,' I lived for 15 months on a fantastical planet, and in 'Clash of the Titans,' I get to fight a scorpion the size of a dump truck. It's a bizarre job, but you explore yourself.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Job
  • Amazing
  • Fight

• Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resident, a mid- to high-handicapper though he was.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • High
  • House
  • Doing

• In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? Do you see no further than this façade—this smooth and tolerant manner of me? Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man? Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Friendship
  • Illusion
  • Satisfaction

• The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Seems
  • Campaigns
  • Sentiments

• People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • People
  • Man
  • Cruel

• What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Criticism
  • Wells
  • Century

• I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Fred Korematsu
  • Life

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

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Credit
  • Satisfaction
  • Truck