Top 100 B C Forbes Quotes
#2. Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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#3. 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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#4. Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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#5. 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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#7. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
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#8. 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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#9. The fellow who isn't fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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#10. Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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#11. Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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#12. 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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#13. Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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#19. Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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#20. Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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#21. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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#22. 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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#23. If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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#24. 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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#25. Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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#26. It's so much easier to do good than to be good.
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#27. The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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#28. The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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#32. You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.
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#33. To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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#34. Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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#35. Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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#36. Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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#37. A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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#38. 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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#39. Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism ... Resist growing up!
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#40. Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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#41. Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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#42. If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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#43. Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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#44. 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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#45. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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#46. What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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#48. 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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#49. 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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#50. The man who has done his level best ... is a success, even though the world write him down a failure.
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#51. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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#52. The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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#53. 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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#54. Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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#55. 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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#56. Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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#57. 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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#58. Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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#59. Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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#60. 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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#61. 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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#62. Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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#63. Kill time and you will kill your career.
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#64. 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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#65. The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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#66. He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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#67. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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#71. Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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#72. Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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#73. There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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#74. A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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#75. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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#77. 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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#78. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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#79. Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
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#80. 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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#81. 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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#82. There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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#83. If the deal isn't good for the other party, it isn't good for you.
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#84. 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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#85. 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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#86. Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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#87. 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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#88. It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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#89. 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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#90. If you do the best and the most you can today, don't worry about tomorrow.
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#91. Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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#92. The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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#93. Life is just an endless chain of judgements ... The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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#94. The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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#95. 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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#96. 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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#97. 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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#98. The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
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#99. Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world.
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#100. 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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