B.C. Forbes Quotes

I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.

When you don't want something enough to make the effort, making an effort is a waste.

A winner must first know what losing's like.

I make more money selling advice than following it

In business, there’s such a thing as an invaluable person, but no such thing as an indispensable one.

I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.

Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad.

One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.

SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism-- and there are those who think they are one and the same.

Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too.

You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous.

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

It is never too late to learn.

Pears are my favorite fruit! Reminds me of childhood.

Plan your work - work your plan

An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

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

It is not the victory that makes the joy of noble hearts; but the combat.

Without a Sabbath, no worship; without worship, no religion; and without religion, no permanent freedom.

If you can't do, you had best shut up.

It is not possible to achieve by vigilance in anger and revenge what the soul is longing for. The soul longs for peace.

Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do.

Most of us are better when things go better.

The hardest work of all - doing nothing.

There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.

Where you're from only matters in relation to where you are.

It's much more profitable to sell investing advice than to follow it.

I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.

None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.

Advice: It's more fun to give than to receive.

Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better.

Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.

A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.

People who stare deserve the looks they get.

If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch.

Accepting blame when it's not really due sometimes makes the point better.

A big cigar in a young face requires the best of both.

It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.

No economy ever stands still.

A promise made should be a promise kept.

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

Use life to provide something that outlasts it.

Kill time and you will kill your career.

Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.

We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.

Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.

Where there is a wine-shop, there are the elements of disease and the frightful source of all that is at enmity with the interests of the workmen.

Put positive energy out into the world. If everybody did that, we would be in harmony.

Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space.