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
faith confidence courage
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.
greed world rich
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
dream determination accomplishment
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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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.
work thinking careers
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.
ideas trouble bigs
You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.
often-is triumph defeat
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
leadership men order
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.
business too-late forget
Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it. What's worth doing is worth doing well. And to do anything well, wheter it be typing a letter or drawing up an agreement involving millions, we must give not only our hands to the doing of it, but our brains, our enthusiasm, the best - all that is in us. The task to which you dedicate yourself can never become a drudgery.
business real riches
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
jealousy cancer jealous
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
lying fate hands
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
inspirational perseverance courage
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.