B. C. Forbes Quotes

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Perseverance, Courage

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

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  Motivation, Business, Inspiration

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Opportunity

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

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  Worry, Today, Tomorrow

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• The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.

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  Dream, Determination, People

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

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  Determination, Lying, Fate

  B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.88, Lulu.com

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

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  Army, Selfishness, Unhappiness

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

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  Race, Important, Speed

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• Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.

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  Opportunity, Men, Complaining

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• Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

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  Thinking, Acting, Shooting

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• Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.

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  Practice, Gains, Virtue

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• Plan your work - work your plan

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  Plans

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• It's so much easier to do good than to be good.

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  Goodness, Easier, Be Good

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• A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.

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  Appreciation, Often Can, Accomplish

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• 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 chiselingand scraping and polishing.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!

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  Brother, Growing Up, Successful

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

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  Business, Real, Riches

  B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.3, Lulu.com

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• 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.

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  Persistence, Race, Important

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• 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.

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  Success, Leadership, Men

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• The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.

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  Excuse

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• Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.

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  Sweetest, Known

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• Use life to provide something that outlasts it.

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  Use

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• Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

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  Motivational, Often Is, Triumph

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• Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

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  Generosity, Joy, Selfishness

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