112 Quotes by B.C. Forbes

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

The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.

Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in his powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors.

Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.

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

Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.

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

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.

A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.