B. C. Forbes Quotes

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

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  Appreciation, Often Can, Accomplish

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• To make headway, improve your head.

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  Work, Habit

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• Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

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  Honesty, Character, Men

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• Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.

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  Sweetest, Known

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• Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

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  Thinking, Acting, Shooting

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• Use life to provide something that outlasts it.

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  Use

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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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• Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

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  Cheating, Deception, Cheated On

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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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• There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?

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  Two, Goal, Effort

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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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• The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.

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  Excuse

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• You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.

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  Ideas, Trouble, Bigs

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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 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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• Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.

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  Yield, Goodwill

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• Bragging often precedes begging.

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  Bragging, Begging

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