Bertie Charles Forbes Quotes

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Put much into the world and in turn much will be put into your world.
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Pray not for more wages, but for more earning power. The former will follow the latter.
Bertie Charles Forbes

A sage once said that it isn’t so very important how far you have gone, but that it is tremendously important that you should be headed in the right direction. Are you?
Bertie Charles Forbes

Show nerve, not nerves.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Every now and again get away from everybody and indulge in quiet thought, having as your motive the desire to become a better human being. It helps.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Be more willing to help those who need it than those who don’t.
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Cringing and crawling will not get you very far in the end.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Courage wins. The last Henry P. Davison stopped the doctors who were preparing to operate on him and told them a funny story!
Bertie Charles Forbes

Self-preservation carried to the point of selfishness can lead to self-destruction.
Bertie Charles Forbes

About the greatest possession of all is a warm, unchangeable sense of our brotherhood with all our fellow humans. Without this, we are not fully rich.
Bertie Charles Forbes



Thistles hurt unless grasped firmly. Business is thistly sometimes.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Success usually calls for leg-work as well as head-work.
Bertie Charles Forbes

To mount, accept the Sermon on the Mount as your guide.
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Branch out – or be kicked out.
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Envy no man who has little work to do. Be assured he is not really happy.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Find fault and you stand little chance of finding success.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Luxuries breed laziness and laziness breeds failure.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Don’t worry so very much about what people think of you, but see to it that they ought to think well of you. That’s all important.
Bertie Charles Forbes

The real satisfaction comes from the struggle, not from the reward.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Unless you conduct your business in a way that profits your character, your other profits won’t do you much good.
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Go around sowing trouble and you’ll by-and-by reap dismissal.
Bertie Charles Forbes

The shirker, haven’t you noticed, is usually a grouch?
Bertie Charles Forbes

Each one of us can be a Babe Ruth to this extent: We can keep on striking out as hard as we know how.
Bertie Charles Forbes

The best kind of ‘pull’ is push.
Bertie Charles Forbes

If you can today improve your method of handling your work, your work will be easier tomorrow.
Bertie Charles Forbes

It’s easy enough to keep your head in smooth, shallow water, but it takes a strong swimmer to reach anywhere amid storm and breakers.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Avoid turning sharp corners. That way lies disaster.
Bertie Charles Forbes

The most important bar every prominent man has to face is the bar of public opinion.
Bertie Charles Forbes

The fellow who wins by a fluke loses sooner or later.
Bertie Charles Forbes

The way to land orders is to keep on angling with all your skill.
Bertie Charles Forbes



As James J. Hill used to say: ‘There’ll be no pockets in your shroud.’
Bertie Charles Forbes

Unless you deposit wealth in your mind, you’ll never be truly rich.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Every executive should know that the surest way to rise to the top of the ladder is to provide every possible stepping-stone for others.
Bertie Charles Forbes

To sink, sulk.
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Thrift lifts.
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‘Tomorrow is also a day,’ the Chinese chide hustlers. But who wants to be as the Chinese?
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At least be as cheerful as you can.
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It is more worthwhile to take pains to be agreeable to those under you than to those over you. Neither fawn nor growl.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Insight wins.
Bertie Charles Forbes

If you’re ashamed of your position you should be ashamed of yourself.
Bertie Charles Forbes



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