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

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  Motivation, Business, Inspiration

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• Plan your work - work your plan

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  Plans

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

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  Race, Important, Speed

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• Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

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  Motivational, Often Is, Triumph

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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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• Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

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  Thinking, Acting, Shooting

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Wisdom, Knowledge, Men

  B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.7, Lulu.com

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

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  Appreciation, Often Can, Accomplish

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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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• A shady business never yields a sunny life.

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  Yield, Sunny Weather, Sunny Afternoon

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• The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.

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  Excuse

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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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• Bragging often precedes begging.

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  Bragging, Begging

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• First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it. What's worth doing is worth doing well. And to do anything well, wheter it be typing a letter or drawing up an agreement involving millions, we must give not only our hands to the doing of it, but our brains, our enthusiasm, the best - all that is in us. The task to which you dedicate yourself can never become a drudgery.

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  Agreement, Hands, Drawing

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• No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.

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  Determination, Exercise, Fighting

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