Quotes from B. C. Forbes

Use life to provide something that outlasts it.

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.

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.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

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

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

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

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.

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.

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

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

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.

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

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

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

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

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.

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

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.

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

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...

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

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

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.