black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

B. C. Forbes

Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
B. C. FORBES

Accumulate Consists Simply Success
We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
B. C. FORBES

Happiness Selfishness Suicidal
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
B. C. FORBES

Generosity Joy Selfishness
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
B. C. FORBES

Motivational Often Triumph
Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
B. C. FORBES

Release Vacation Welcome
When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
B. C. FORBES

Betting Chickens Coward
There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
B. C. FORBES

Men People Self
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
B. C. FORBES

Golf Hazard Life
Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
B. C. FORBES

Manners Moral People
Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
B. C. FORBES

Knowledge Men Wisdom
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
B. C. FORBES

Important Race Speed
If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.
B. C. FORBES

Directors Inspire United States
It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
B. C. FORBES

Europe Feet Hands
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.
B. C. FORBES

Leadership Men Success
Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
B. C. FORBES

Found Success Years
If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
B. C. FORBES

Today Tomorrow Worry

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More B. C. Forbes Quotes