Quotes by B. C. Forbes

B. C. Forbes

B. C. Forbes

American Publisher

Lived from: 1880 - 1954

Category: Media Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 14 may 1880 Died: 6 may 1954

  • The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
  • The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
  • The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure.
  • The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...
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  • A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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  • A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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  • Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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  • Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.
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  • Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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  • Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.
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  • Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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  • Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea by itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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  • If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.
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  • It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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  • Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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  • 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. Youthfulnesss of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!
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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. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.
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  • One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is better than 50 half-finished tasks
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  • Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
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  • Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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  • The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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What are the most famous quotes from B. C. Forbes?

The two most famous quotes from B. C. Forbes are:

  • "A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results."
  • "A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far."

When did B. C. Forbes live?

B. C. Forbes was born in 1880 and died in the year 1954.