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. FORBESThere’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. FORBESTemporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
B. C. FORBESThere are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
B. C. FORBESGolf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
B. C. FORBESIt is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
B. C. FORBESDon’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
B. C. FORBESLady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
B. C. FORBESHonesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
B. C. FORBESIf the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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. FORBESIt is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
B. C. FORBESOpportunity 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. FORBESTurn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
B. C. FORBESHonesty is the cornerstone of character.
B. C. FORBESThe man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
B. C. FORBESThe man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
B. C. FORBES