B. C. Forbes Quotes (42 Quotes)

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

To make headway, improve your head.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

It's so much easier to do good than to be good.

One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is better than 50 half-finished tasks.

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

That which is useless dies. Animals that fail to serve some useful purpose in the scheme of things slowly but surely become extinct. Let any part of the human body cease to perform its ordained function, and it withersas when an arm is kept long in a sling. This same decree, that nothing useless is permitted to survive, runs through the mind of the industrial world.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

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...

Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. The men who have won fame and fortune through having an idea are those who devoted every ounce of their strength and every dollar they could muster to putting it into operation. Ford had a big idea, but he had to sweat and suffer and sacrifice to make it work.

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.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

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.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

A willing, cheerful worker, with his heart in his job, will turn out more work and more satisfactory work in 44 hours than an unwilling worker, dissatisfied with his conditions, will turn out in 54 hours. It is good business, therefore, for every employer to go as far as he possibly can in reaching a schedule agreeable to his people.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

Time mends all, ends all things earthly.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

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.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age.

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.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

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.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

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.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

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.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Strength comes from struggle weakness from ease.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Upon our childrenhow they are taughtrests the fateor fortuneof tomorrow's world.