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
appreciation often-can accomplish
A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
cheating deception cheated-on
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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.
life golf hazards
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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.
patience reality men
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
men self simplicity
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.
children fate world
Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world.
habit
To make headway, improve your head.
business order driven
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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.
confidence courage fear
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
inspirational spring fall
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
credit satisfaction firsts
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.