Quote

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

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
Human
Normal
Humans
Equal
Every
Fun
Cares
Really
Sports
Worthwhile
Things
Almost
Satisfaction
Life
Within
Seek
Care
Reach
Best
Leadership

More quotes by B. C. Forbes

Image
Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little.
B. C. Forbes
Image
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
B. C. Forbes
Image
A nation's economic salvation does not lie in the amount of money its rich inhabitants can squander recklessly. A nation's economic salvation lies in the amount of money its inhabitants can save and invest after providing themselves with all the necessaries and all the reasonable comforts of life.
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
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
B. C. Forbes
Image
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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
Image
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
B. C. Forbes
Image
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
B. C. Forbes
Image
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
B. C. Forbes
Image
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
B. C. Forbes
Image
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
Image
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
B. C. Forbes
Image
To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
B. C. Forbes
Image
How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
B. C. Forbes
Image
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
B. C. Forbes