B. C. Forbes Quotes

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

Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

If you do the best and the most you can today, don't worry about tomorrow.

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.

Plan your work - work your plan

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

Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

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.

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

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.

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

If the deal isn't good for the other party, it isn't good for you.

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of businessmen have been showing less sense than a hen since orders became scarce. They have laid off salesmen; they have stopped or reduced their advertising; they have simply resigned themselves to inaction and, of course, to pessimism. If a hen knows enough to scratch all the harder when the worms are scarce, surely businessmen ... ought to have gumption enough to scratch all the harder for business.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.

Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.

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

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!

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

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

To make headway, improve your head.

Kill time and you will kill your career.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

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