B. C. Forbes Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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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• A shady business never yields a sunny life.

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  Yield, Sunny Weather, Sunny Afternoon

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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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• The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.

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  Men, Busy, He Man

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• Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

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  Cheating, Deception, Cheated On

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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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• Thomas Edison reads not for entertainment but to increase his store of knowledge. He sucks in information as eagerly as the bee sucks honey from flowers. The whole world, so to speak, pours its wisdom into his mind. He regards it as a criminal waste of time to go through the slow and painful ordeal of ascertaining things for one's self if these same things have already been ascertained and made available by others. In Edison's mind knowledge is power.

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  Flower, Science, Self

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• Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.

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  Sweetest, Known

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• He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

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  Faith, Confidence, Courage

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

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  Race, Important, Speed

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• Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

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  Jealousy, Cancer, Jealous

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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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• To make headway, improve your head.

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  Work, Habit

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• Kill time and you will kill your career.

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  Careers

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• Use life to provide something that outlasts it.

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  Use

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• Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

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  Motivational, Adversity, Challenges

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• The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.

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  Friendship, Loyalty, True Friend

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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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• If the deal isn't good for the other party, it isn't good for you.

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  Party, Deals, Ifs

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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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• Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

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  Jealousy, Cancer, Inferiority

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• Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive to draw logical conclusions, whether favorable or unfavorable. He must not engage in self-delusion. He must not view everything through rose-colored glasses. Granting this, the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny, by men willing to adventure to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.

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  Adventure, Destiny, Men

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• Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

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  Workout, Tired, Sleep

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