The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
B. C. FORBESThe man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
B. C. FORBESWhat you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
B. C. FORBESThe bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
B. C. FORBESA 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.
B. C. FORBESBackboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. FORBESIf the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
B. C. FORBESTime mends all, ends all things earthly.
B. C. FORBESJealousy… is a mental cancer.
B. C. FORBESThink 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.
B. C. FORBESBragging often precedes begging.
B. C. FORBESThe 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.
B. C. FORBESSuccess consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
B. C. FORBESIn the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
B. C. FORBESIt’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
B. C. FORBESThe 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.
B. C. FORBESIt is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
B. C. FORBES