black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

B. C. Forbes

Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
B. C. FORBES

Honesty Inspirational Mind
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
B. C. FORBES

Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
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. FORBES

Effort Goal Two
…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
B. C. FORBES

Adventure Destiny Sports
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
B. C. FORBES

Idea Machines Material Raw
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
B. C. FORBES

Army Selfishness Unhappiness
He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
B. C. FORBES

Confidence Courage Faith
To make headway, improve your head.
B. C. FORBES

Habit Headway Make Work
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
B. C. FORBES

Business Driven Order
Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
B. C. FORBES

Doe Inspire Unselfishness
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. FORBES

Determination Exercise Fighting
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
B. C. FORBES

Bargaining Satisfaction Yield
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
B. C. FORBES

Business Retirement Success
If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
B. C. FORBES

Business Inspiration Motivation
It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
B. C. FORBES

Democracy Doe Progress
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. FORBES

Hands Pumps Work

An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More B. C. Forbes Quotes