Top 90 B.C. Forbes Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Plan your work – work your plan.”

— B.C. Forbes

2. “Kill time and you will kill your career.”

— B.C. Forbes

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3. “If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.”

— B.C. Forbes

4. “In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.”

— B.C. Forbes

5. “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

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6. “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

7. “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.”

— B.C. Forbes

8. “Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.”

— B.C. Forbes

9. “The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.”

— B.C. Forbes

10. “If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.”

— B.C. Forbes

11. “Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.”

— B.C. Forbes

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

— B.C. Forbes

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

— B.C. Forbes

14. “Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.”

— B.C. Forbes

15. “The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.”

— B.C. Forbes

16. “Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.”

— B.C. Forbes

17. “Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.”

— B.C. Forbes

18. “There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.”

— B.C. Forbes

19. “To make headway, improve your head.”

— B.C. Forbes

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

— B.C. Forbes

21. “Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.”

— B.C. Forbes

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

— B.C. Forbes

23. “Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.”

— B.C. Forbes

24. “Real riches are the riches possessed inside.”

— B.C. Forbes

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

— B.C. Forbes

26. “Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.”

— B.C. Forbes

27. “There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.”

— B.C. Forbes

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28. “Bragging often precedes begging.”

— B.C. Forbes

29. “A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.”

— B.C. Forbes

30. “Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook.”

— B.C. Forbes

31. “Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.”

— B.C. Forbes

32. “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

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

— B.C. Forbes

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

— B.C. Forbes

35. “I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.”

— B.C. Forbes

36. “No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.”

— B.C. Forbes

37. “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.”

— B.C. Forbes

38. “Honesty is the cornerstone of character.”

— B.C. Forbes

39. “Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.”

— B.C. Forbes

40. “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

41. “To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.”

— B.C. Forbes

42. “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

43. “Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.”

— B.C. Forbes

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

— B.C. Forbes

45. “Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.”

— B.C. Forbes

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

— B.C. Forbes

47. “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

48. “The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.”

— B.C. Forbes

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

— B.C. Forbes

50. “The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.”

— B.C. Forbes