Quote

Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.

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
Success
Sweetest
Failure
Known

More quotes by B. C. Forbes

Image
The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
B. C. Forbes
Image
No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
B. C. Forbes
Image
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
B. C. Forbes
Image
Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
B. C. Forbes
Image
To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
B. C. Forbes
Image
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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
Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
B. C. Forbes
Image
A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
B. C. Forbes
Image
It's so much easier to do good than to be good.
B. C. Forbes
Image
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
B. C. Forbes
Image
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
B. C. Forbes
Image
I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
B. C. Forbes
Image
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
B. C. Forbes
Image
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
Image
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.
B. C. Forbes
Image
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
Image
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
B. C. Forbes
Image
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
B. C. Forbes
Image
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
B. C. Forbes