The bell of public opinion is today making the Morgan-Rockefeller-Vanderbilt class jump. Nor are the strongest of our corporations immune. The railroads have had to jump pretty lively, and certain gigantic industrial combinations are also being put through their paces.
B. C. FORBESThe truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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The bell of public opinion is today making the Morgan-Rockefeller-Vanderbilt class jump. Nor are the strongest of our corporations immune. The railroads have had to jump pretty lively, and certain gigantic industrial combinations are also being put through their paces.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
B. C. FORBESAnything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
B. C. FORBESIf the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
B. C. FORBESMany a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
B. C. FORBESWithout self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
B. C. FORBESWhimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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There 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. 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?
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No 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. FORBESNo man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
B. C. FORBESDiamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
B. C. FORBESHonesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
B. C. FORBESDon’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
B. C. FORBESJealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
B. C. FORBESMediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
B. C. FORBESThe real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
B. C. FORBESA business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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