Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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
Woos
Enthusiastically
Earnestly
Lady
Generally
Luck
More quotes by B. C. Forbes
To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
B. C. Forbes
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
B. C. Forbes
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
There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
B. C. Forbes
It's so much easier to do good than to be good.
B. C. Forbes
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
B. C. Forbes
Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
B. C. Forbes
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
B. C. Forbes
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
Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
B. C. Forbes
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
B. C. Forbes
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
B. C. Forbes
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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
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
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
B. C. Forbes
Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. Forbes
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
B. C. Forbes
Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
B. C. Forbes
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