B. C. Forbes

B. C. Forbes

"He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him."
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"He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him."
B. C. Forbes
"Real riches are the riches possessed inside."
B. C. Forbes
"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn."
B. C. Forbes
"Jealousy... is a mental cancer."
B. C. Forbes
"The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to."
B. C. Forbes
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."
B. C. Forbes
"Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert."
B. C. Forbes
"Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving."
B. C. Forbes
"The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure."
B. C. Forbes
"The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure."
B. C. Forbes
"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
"A shady business never yields a sunny life."
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"If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business."
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"Turn 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. Forbes
"The 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."
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"How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly "I was wrong."
B. C. Forbes
"Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast a man consumed with earnestness of purpose with confidence in his powers with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors."
B. C. Forbes
"Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful business giants and ... you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous."
B. C. Forbes
"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
"Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation by actual experience in the school of life by ceaseless alertness to learn from others by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects by constant study of human nature."
B. C. Forbes
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