B. C. Forbes
B. C. Forbes
Bertie Charles Forbeswas a Scottish-born American financial journalist and author who founded Forbes magazine...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth14 May 1880
success crush memories
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.
opportunity men use
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.
honesty character belief
Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
habit
To make headway, improve your head.
race important speed
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
motivational adversity challenges
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
confidence courage fear
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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.
inspirational spring fall
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
goodness easier be-good
It's so much easier to do good than to be good.
retirement business age
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.
positive dessert-first meat
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
life golf hazards
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
basketball jobs coal
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.