B. C. Forbes quote: "History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired yo...
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive...
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To make headway, improve your head.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to e...
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities...
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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.
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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of gr...
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over b...
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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not...
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a fail...
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I've never known any human being, high or humble, who ever regretted, when nearing life's end, havin...
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corr...
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world. -B. C. Forbes.
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He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring tru...
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It dire...
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked hard...
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life
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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results
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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is ...
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Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to ...
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired yo...
B. C. FORBES

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrod...
B. C. FORBES

Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not...
B. C. FORBES

Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fa...
B. C. FORBES

The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrows and double our joys.
BARRY C. FORBES

It isn't success if it costs you the companionship and chumminess and love of your children.
BARRY C. FORBES

The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities...
BARRY C. FORBES

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
BARRY C. FORBES

A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked hard...
BARRY C. FORBES

Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an ...
BARRY C. FORBES

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to e...
BARRY C. FORBES

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
BARRY C. FORBES

I've never known any human being, high or humble, who ever regretted, when nearing life's end, havin...
BARRY C. FORBES

As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American...
RANDY FORBES

September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the da...
RANDY FORBES

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lig...
RANDY FORBES

I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of t...
RANDY FORBES

Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attack...
RANDY FORBES

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
MALCOLM FORBES

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
MALCOLM FORBES

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
MALCOLM FORBES

To measure the man, measure his heart.
MALCOLM FORBES

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you a...
MALCOLM FORBES

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
MALCOLM FORBES

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
MALCOLM FORBES

If you never budge, don't expect a push.
MALCOLM FORBES

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lo...
MALCOLM FORBES

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
MALCOLM FORBES

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleague...
MALCOLM FORBES

When you cease to dream you cease to live.
MALCOLM FORBES

It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
MALCOLM FORBES

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
MALCOLM FORBES

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, ...
MALCOLM FORBES

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
MALCOLM FORBES

Failure is success if we learn from it.
MALCOLM FORBES

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
MALCOLM FORBES

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
MALCOLM FORBES

The best vision is insight.
MALCOLM FORBES

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing num...
STEVE FORBES

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chine...
STEVE FORBES

By the time we've made it, we've had it. -Malcolm Forbes.
MALCOLM FORBES

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
MALCOLM FORBES

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
MALCOLM FORBES

If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you&...
MICHELLE FORBES

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -Malcolm Forbes.
MALCOLM FORBES

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
MALCOLM FORBES

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
MALCOLM FORBES

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
MALCOLM FORBES

Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's spac...
RANDY FORBES

By the time we've made it, we've had it.
MALCOLM FORBES

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
MALCOLM FORBES

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
MALCOLM FORBES

They've got a really good side. They were just a better team.
BEN FORBES

I thought Community Christian played really well. They are just a lot younger than we are.
BEN FORBES

It will be like playing Fayetteville (Academy) every day. He did all right against Fayetteville. I d...
BEN FORBES

I'm glad he's going. He can be of help to them. His strong point is his distribution of the ball and...
BEN FORBES

After playing 80 minutes in a scoreless tie against Fayetteville Academy (on Friday night) we had a ...
BEN FORBES

When you can tap the ball off the heel of your foot, while in midair, and then make a play like that...
BEN FORBES

We just had a little too much talent. They're on the young side and they played well. They will impr...
BEN FORBES

Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, a...
EDWARD FORBES

And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporat...
STEVE FORBES

All living things have the ability to flourish when they are tended with gentle hands.
ERIN FORBES

If any of those prove to be effective, the soonest a product would be available is probably about fi...
ANNA FORBES

It's a basic concept that all women can relate to. Women have an urgent need to protect themselves.
ANNA FORBES

When love enters the picture, the glove comes off.
ANNA FORBES

And the vast majority are occurring as a result of unprotected heterosexual sex .
ANNA FORBES

I was a massive fan of 'Twin Peaks.' Massive. I don't know how any of us grew up in this...
MICHELLE FORBES

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And w...
STEVE FORBES

Presence is more than just being there.
MALCOLM FORBES

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
MALCOLM FORBES

So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who's supposed to be the 'big baddie,' it...
MICHELLE FORBES

Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms.
EDWARD FORBES

I think the idea of trying to demonize Governor Romney's going to backfire. Their attempts so fa...
STEVE FORBES

I've never had a plan. You look for different actors you want to work with or different subjects...
MICHELLE FORBES

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.
MALCOLM FORBES

When in doubt, duck.
MALCOLM FORBES

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
MALCOLM FORBES

By the time we've made it, we've had it.
MALCOLM FORBES

Men who never get carried away should be.
MALCOLM FORBES

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you ar...
MALCOLM FORBES

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
MALCOLM FORBES

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' i...
MALCOLM FORBES

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
MALCOLM FORBES

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.
MALCOLM FORBES

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy...
MALCOLM FORBES

If you don't have a good ground organization, the message isn't going to get through, especially on ...
STEVE FORBES

As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fe...
EDWARD FORBES

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom o...
STEVE FORBES

Why do we have these silly experts bemoaning the fact that we're living longer? ... As I live longer...
STEVE FORBES

Everyone always wants to talk about 'True Blood' and 'Battlestar Galactica' - no one...
MICHELLE FORBES

When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction....
MICHELLE FORBES

Paul was a superb reporter -- courageous, energetic, ever-curious,
STEVE FORBES

For ease of implementing the project, the company would want to see if a system is in place for a un...
CLYDE FORBES

No. 1, we are a lawn bowling club, and then we're a social club.
BETH FORBES

I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.
ESTHER FORBES

Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he...
STEVE FORBES

There's plenty of juice to keep this economy going.
STEVE FORBES

IF YOU CAN DO don't not.
MALCOLM FORBES

It is very telling in the case of George Bush that he uses a front organization financed illegally b...
STEVE FORBES

Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others...
B.C. FORBES

If you are comparing against an RG&E fixed price, when you talk to other energy suppliers, you need ...
CLYDE FORBES

We have foreign guests who smoke who we're alienating totally. People should be able to go outside.
JEFF FORBES

In this year, there is going to be no coronation, ... There is going to be no pre-appointment of a p...
STEVE FORBES

They never seem to be on the offense. Their spin machine is a little rusty.
STEVE FORBES

There are things that you cherish that you didn't think to bring with you, and now they're gone.
ASHLEY FORBES

We thought we'd be able to go right back home. It's devastating to lose all the things we worked so ...
ASHLEY FORBES

...for the first time in his life Johnny heard that wonderful music-galloping hoofs on hard earth.
ESTHER FORBES

We want to make sure that our members keep coming back and stay happy.
BETH FORBES

One reason that we stay so successful in this town is because we not only get great publicity, but b...
BETH FORBES

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.
STEVE FORBES

I very much appreciate having the confidence of the full board of directors. We are going to be able...
MICHAEL FORBES

It's a good win. Everybody was saying that we haven't played anyone good and we haven't done enough ...
MICHAEL FORBES

I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and ...
EDWARD FORBES

This is a free country, as is the United States, and certain people want to protest because they hav...
STEVE FORBES

As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fe...
EDWARD FORBES

We are as confident as ever that our underlying core business activities will continue to develop an...
EDWARD FORBES

The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather ...
EDWARD FORBES

The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monst...
EDWARD FORBES

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chine...
STEVE FORBES

He's surrendered the fight to the IRS, ... I intend to fight and win on that issue.
STEVE FORBES

We must encourage American businesses and farmers by weeding out the excessive red tape that Washing...
STEVE FORBES

The essence of the American dream is the understanding that we are here on this earth and in this la...
STEVE FORBES

We're obviously covering more issues than I had an opportunity to do in 1996,
STEVE FORBES

Especially after what we've had in Washington for seven years, I think people want to get to know th...
STEVE FORBES

New Hampshire is unique in that all the presidential candidates come here because of your first-in-t...
STEVE FORBES

The currents out there are very mild, which is working in the favor of rescuers. We saw a massive de...
MICHAEL FORBES

a full explanation of what happened, why it happened, how it happened and who were the president's a...
STEVE FORBES

Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he...
STEVE FORBES

I have grown to realize that there are very few impossibilities in our world.
ERIN FORBES

Following discussions with the Agency this afternoon, we anticipate a timely resolution to the manuf...
BILL FORBES

Epiphany has been involved in the neighborhood through social-action groups for quite a few years. W...
BILL FORBES

something only the timid could love -- simply more political expediency.
STEVE FORBES

We bend over backwards to tutor and teach anyone interested in the sport.
BETH FORBES

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
MALCOLM FORBES

Pears are my favorite fruit! Reminds me of childhood.
MICHELLE FORBES

I thought a vegan diet would be too difficult, being on the road so much, but it's been far easi...
MICHELLE FORBES

I think that we are over the recession. We have positive GDP, employment is stabilizing and the purc...
DREW FORBES

The market, at least for the time being, has been a liquidating market.
DREW FORBES

It's a really light trade, I don't think you're going to have to read too much into it. People are v...
DREW FORBES

The economic numbers have been strong and the market has traded off them since last week.
DREW FORBES

We are just kind of washing around here. As it stands right now, we are just in a holding pattern.
DREW FORBES

We were concerned that their advertising campaign conveyed to consumers that WebTV allowed consumers...
DEAN FORBES

WebTV claimed that the Internet functionality is the same as you get with a PC. And it's not.
DEAN FORBES

It sends a message to the marketers of competing services not to overstate their benefits.
DEAN FORBES

They were full of suspicion and wonder, which I had grown to recognize as two very dangerous things.
ERIN FORBES

Grudges are often worse enemies than pain.
ERIN FORBES

Normality is much less captivating than the extraordinary.
ERIN FORBES

People should always force themselves to do daring things.
GORDON FORBES

A plant-based diet has actually simplified my life in so many ways. For breakfast, I try to get my f...
MICHELLE FORBES

It is foolish to believe that you are insignificant.
ERIN FORBES

I think the White House knows once those hearings start, he's doomed.
STEVE FORBES

We encourage customers who have not already done so to voice their choice today so they can avoid th...
CLYDE FORBES

A CAT pass is not, and will not, be an option because the school bus drivers are union members. The ...
GREG FORBES

It doesn't take 300 mph winds to totally destroy an ordinary frame house.
GREG FORBES

My passion is to make sure this society is educated in modern science.
GREGORY FORBES

In science, there has never been a more well-founded theory than evolutionary theory. It's as good a...
GREGORY FORBES

Science has to be guided by natural laws, and we seek to explain what's observed by natural law - no...
GREGORY FORBES

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

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