B.C. Forbes Quotes

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

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

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.

In a dream it's typical not to be rational.

The best vision is insight.

Presence is more than just being there.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

Age isn't important until you run out of it.

It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.

Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.

A Good Samaritan is not simply one whose heart is touched in an immediate act of care and charity, but one who provides a system of sustained care.

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.

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

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

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.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

A little reciprocity goes a long way.

Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.

One of the ceaseless wonders of the world: The power of a smile.

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

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

Your brand is the single most important investment you can make in your business

Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.

The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.

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

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

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

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.