Top 100 B.C. Forbes Quotes
#1. 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, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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#2. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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#3. A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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#4. Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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#5. Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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#6. Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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#7. Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.
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#8. Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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#9. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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#10. He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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#11. The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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#12. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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#13. Kill time and you will kill your career.
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#14. Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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#15. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in his powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors.
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#16. 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 reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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#17. Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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#18. Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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#19. 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.
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#20. Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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#21. Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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#22. I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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#23. The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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#24. 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 kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little.
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#25. Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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#26. Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world.
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#27. The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
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#28. The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman, the prizes will be for those who most effectively exert their brains, who take deep, earnest and studious counsel of their minds, who stamp themselves as thinkers.
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#29. How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all ... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, I was wrong.
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#30. 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.
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#31. The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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#32. Life is just an endless chain of judgements ... The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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#33. The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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#34. Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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#35. If you do the best and the most you can today, don't worry about tomorrow.
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#37. It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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#38. 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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#39. Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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#40. 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.
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#41. We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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#42. If the deal isn't good for the other party, it isn't good for you.
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#43. There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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#44. It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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#45. 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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#46. Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
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#47. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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#48. A nation's economic salvation does not lie in the amount of money its rich inhabitants can squander recklessly. A nation's economic salvation lies in the amount of money its inhabitants can save and invest after providing themselves with all the necessaries and all the reasonable comforts of life.
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#49. Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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#50. Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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#51. If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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#52. 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.
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#53. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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#54. Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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#55. Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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#56. A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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#57. A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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#58. 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, to fight for, if need be ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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#59. The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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#61. Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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#62. The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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#63. Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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#64. Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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#65. The fellow who isn't fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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#66. There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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#67. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
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#69. If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.
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#70. Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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#71. I resolve for 1920 to sit down all by myself and take a personal stock-taking once a month. To be no more charitable in viewing my own faults than I am an viewing the faults of others. To face the facts candidly and courageously. To address myself carefully, prayerfully, to remedying defects.
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#72. Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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#73. 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.
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#74. The man who has done his level best ... is a success, even though the world write him down a failure.
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#75. 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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#76. 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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#78. What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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#79. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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#80. 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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#81. Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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#82. If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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#83. Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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#84. Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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#85. It's so much easier to do good than to be good.
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#86. Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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#87. A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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#88. Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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#89. Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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#90. Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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#91. To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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#92. You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.
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#93. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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#94. Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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#95. It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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#96. The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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#97. The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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#98. Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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#99. The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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#100. 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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