Quotes from B. C. Forbes

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

Kill time and you will kill your career.

Time mends all, ends all things earthly.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

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.

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

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

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

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

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.

The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.

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

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.

Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

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

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

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

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

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

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.

You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

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