B.C. Forbes Quotes

Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook

In the long run, a short cut seldom is.

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.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

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.

To measure the man, measure his heart.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

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.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.

More often than not, things and people are as they appear.

To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

Once you've given advice to someone, you're obligated.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.

You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business -- along with the short memory of our readers.

People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke.

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

Nothing is sometimes the right thing to say.

How to succeed? Try hard enough.

It's always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.

He who says he never needs help, most does.

Living and dreaming are two different things - but you can't do one without the other.

How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.

There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

It's great to arrive, but the trip's most always most of the fun.

Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will

Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Bragging often precedes begging.

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

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose.

One of my last few vices is coffee, but with a spot of almond or soymilk, it's never tasted better!

It's never too late to learn.

It's a very short trip. While alive, live.

The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.

I thought a vegan diet would be too difficult, being on the road so much, but it's been far easier than I thought.

The art of conversation lies in listening.

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

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.

All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn't be a dull boy.