Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
B. C. Forbes
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Conscience
Failure
Cost
Poverty
Millions
Men
Greediness
Greed
Integrity
More quotes by B. C. Forbes
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
B. C. Forbes
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!
B. C. Forbes
Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
B. C. Forbes
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
B. C. Forbes
How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, I was wrong.
B. C. Forbes
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
B. C. Forbes
Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
B. C. Forbes
You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.
B. C. Forbes
Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
B. C. Forbes
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
B. C. Forbes
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
B. C. Forbes
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
B. C. Forbes
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
B. C. Forbes
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
B. C. Forbes
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
B. C. Forbes
The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman, the prizes will be for those who most effectively exert their brains, who take deep, earnest and studious counsel of their minds, who stamp themselves as thinkers.
B. C. Forbes
