B. C. Forbes Quotes

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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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• Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

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  Inspirational, Honesty, Mind

  B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.63, Lulu.com

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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 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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• Plan your work - work your plan

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  Plans

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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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• Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

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  Thinking, Acting, Shooting

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

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  Appreciation, Often Can, Accomplish

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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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• Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

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  Motivational, Often Is, Triumph

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

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  Goodness, Easier, Be Good

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• When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of businessmen have been showing less sense than a hen since orders became scarce. They have laid off salesmen; they have stopped or reduced their advertising; they have simply resigned themselves to inaction and, of course, to pessimism. If a hen knows enough to scratch all the harder when the worms are scarce, surely businessmen ... ought to have gumption enough to scratch all the harder for business.

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  Perseverance, Order, Gumption

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

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  Ideas, Trouble, Bigs

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• Kill time and you will kill your career.

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  Careers

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• Bragging often precedes begging.

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  Bragging, Begging

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• Timing is everything. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he is likely to go in the world. The popular notion is that a youth's progress depends upon how he acts during his working hours. It doesn't. It depends far more upon how he utilizes his leisure...If he spends it in harmless idleness, he is likely to be kept on the payroll, but that will be about all. If he diligently utilizes his own time...to fit himself for more responsible duties, then the greater responsibilities - and greater rewards - are almost certain to come to him.

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  Time, Responsibility, Men

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