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
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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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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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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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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America, in the eyes of the world, typifies above all else this quality of initiative. The greatest successes are nearly all the fruit of initiative. Why do we hold in such high esteem the achievements of the Wright brothers? Because they were illustrious examples of initiative and tenacity. And ideas are born of initiative, the children of men and women of initiative. Advancement is applied initiative. Don't imitate. Initiate.
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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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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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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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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.