Quote

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

B. C. Forbes

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

B. C. Forbes
Age: 73 †
Born: 1880
Born: May 14
Died: 1954
Died: May 6
Editor
Entrepreneur
Journalist
Publisher
Writer
B. C. Forbes
Spring
Gardening
Fall
Harvest
Inspirational
Plants
Reaps
Autumn
Faithfully
Farmers
Farmer
Seeds
Farming
Plant
Reap
Garden
Gardener

More quotes by B. C. Forbes

Image
Enthusiasm is the parent of enterprise. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, someone consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in their powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of their endeavors.
B. C. Forbes
Image
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
B. C. Forbes
Image
There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one's best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
B. C. Forbes
Image
Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
B. C. Forbes
Image
There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
B. C. Forbes
Image
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
B. C. Forbes
Image
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.
B. C. Forbes
Image
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
B. C. Forbes
Image
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
B. C. Forbes
Image
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes
Image
If you do the best and the most you can today, don't worry about tomorrow.
B. C. Forbes
Image
To make headway, improve your head.
B. C. Forbes
Image
A willing, cheerful worker, with his heart in his job, will turn out more work and more satisfactory work in 44 hours than an unwilling worker, dissatisfied with his conditions, will turn out in 54 hours. It is good business, therefore, for every employer to go as far as he possibly can in reaching a schedule agreeable to his people.
B. C. Forbes
Image
How many men I know who are earning dollars aplenty, but who are really earning little of what counts. They are so overwhelmingly engrossed in business that they get nothing from their dollars. The Juggernaut of dollar-making has crushed out of them every capacity for genuine enjoyment, every grace, every unselfish sentiment and instinct.
B. C. Forbes
Image
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.
B. C. Forbes
Image
It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
B. C. Forbes
Image
Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
B. C. Forbes
Image
The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
B. C. Forbes
Image
The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
B. C. Forbes
Image
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. Forbes