B. C. Forbes
50 quotes
Biography
Bertie Charles Forbes was a Scottish-American financial journalist and author who founded Forbes magazine.
"The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure."
"A shady business never yields a sunny life."
"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."
"He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him."
"If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business."
"Real riches are the riches possessed inside."
"A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results."
"The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure."
"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn."
"Jealousy... is a mental cancer."
"The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to."
"Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly enthusiastically unremittingly woo her."
"When it comes to betting on yourself ... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate."
"Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement the less perfect our success."
"Money or even power can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others."
"Money or even power can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others."
"Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs."
"Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong able alert men go after opportunity."
"Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer."
"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."
"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."
"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.""
"Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed "dignity" to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!"
"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."
"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."