Quotes by B.C. Forbes

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

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.

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

When it comes to betting on yourself...you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall season, with its new opportunities for effort, enterprise and achievement, is upon us.

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 chiseling and scraping and polishing.

Let us resolve to look on the bright side, to make the best of whatever may befall, to maintain faith that doing the right thing will ultimately bring victory.

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

Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.

Let us enter the New Year cheerfully. Let us resolve to look onto the bright side, to make the best of whatever may befall, to maintain faith that doing the right thing will ultimately bring victory.