Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
B. C. FORBESActing without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
B. C. FORBESMany a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
B. C. FORBESThe truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
B. C. FORBESBetter to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
B. C. FORBESYou have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
B. C. FORBESOur future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
B. C. FORBESThe things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
B. C. FORBESTemporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
B. C. FORBESReal riches are the riches possessed inside.
B. C. FORBESA shady business never yields a sunny life.
B. C. FORBESMediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
B. C. FORBESNo man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
B. C. FORBESIf you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
B. C. FORBESI have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
B. C. FORBESThe bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
B. C. FORBESWork is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
B. C. FORBES