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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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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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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It's so much easier to do good than to be good.
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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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Frank W. Woolworth once told me that the turning-point in his career did not come until he was thrown flat on his back by illness. He was sure that his business would go to pieces during his long, enforced absence. Instead, he discovered that he had in his employ men who could overcome difficulties when given power to exercise initiative. After that Woolworth left many problems and difficulties to be solved by subordinates and turned his attention to big things.