Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
– B. C. Forbes
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
– B. C. Forbes
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.
– B. C. Forbes
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.
– B. C. Forbes
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
– B. C. Forbes
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
– B. C. Forbes
It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.
– B. C. Forbes
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
– B. C. Forbes
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
– B. C. Forbes
The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure.
– B. C. Forbes
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
– B. C. Forbes
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
– B. C. Forbes
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.
– B. C. Forbes
To make headway, improve your head.
– B. C. Forbes
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.
– B. C. Forbes
The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
– B. C. Forbes
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
– B. C. Forbes
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.