B.C. Forbes Quotes

How old are you Johnny" she asked. Sixteen." And what's that-a boy or a man?" He laughed. "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.

Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

I was loaded with sheer ability, spelled i-n-h-e-r-i-t-a-n-c-e.

After 40, one's face begins to tell more than one's tongue.

Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.

One thing that previous practice doesn't always make perfect: Marriage.

Too few accomplish twice as much as too many.

The day nothing turns you on - you're dead. No matter how many more years you go on breathing.

Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.

One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing.

Thinkers perish, thoughts don't.

Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they're just uncovered anew.

Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn't want to be.

It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.

He who hesitates is sometimes wise.

The Palm is a joint for sadists to entertain masochists.

Anticipating is more fun than recollecting.

Listening to advice often accomplishes far more than heeding it.

When it's your own fault, things hurt worse than when someone else is to blame.

A hug's a happy thing while a shrug's so often destructive.

Trying to impress others does - usually in quite the opposite way.

Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes.

Speculator: One who bought stocks that went down.

It's the less bright students who make teachers teach better.

Clout is something some seem to have-until they try exercising it.

It doesn't take much of a rule to measure a mean man.

If you want understanding try giving some.

After the fact, our hearts always go out to the fallen Goliaths. Yet we invariably root for their Davids. Until they're winners.

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

I don't waste too much time philosophizing about wealth, I just recommend it to everyone.

Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?

The last thing you do the best is what you have the most joy doing.

If you can read and don't, you're dumb.

A lot of money doesn't make anyone more often right. It just makes him harder to correct.

How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won't be room for us.

I'd like to think I'm an actor who leaves things at work.

September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.

The desert has a subtle and a cruel charm. She destroys while she enthralls.

That is the charm of the map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible.

One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.

Contrary to the cliche', genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it.

The words, 'penalty,' 'restrict' and 'violate' appeared more times in President Clinton's health care reform bill than in his crime bill.

Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.

There's no human censorship at kiosks.

Successful avengers, who are good men at heart, will always be saddened.

The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.

White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.

I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.

Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.

There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.