Quotes of B. C. Forbes - somelinesforyou

“ The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys. ”

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“ The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys. ”

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“ Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. ”

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

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“ Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. ”

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“ 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. ”

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“ It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw on from within. ”

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“ 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. ”

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“ 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. ”

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“ The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world. - B. C. Forbes. ”

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“ Jealousy… is a mental cancer. ”

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

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“ Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain. ”

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

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

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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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“ Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs. ”

- B. C. Forbes

“ 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. ”

- B. C. Forbes

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

- B. C. Forbes

“ Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing. ”

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“ Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious. ”

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“ Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her. ”

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“ When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate. ”

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“ Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the face, and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure, you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate. ”

- B. C. Forbes

“ Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing. ”

- B. C. Forbes

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

- B. C. Forbes

“ When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate. ”

- B. C. Forbes

“ Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education. ”

- B. C. Forbes
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