Bertie Charles Forbes Quotes

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Have respect for others or you will not have the respect of others.
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Sweat – and smile.
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Become self-centered and by-and-by nobody will object. You will simply be shunned.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Getting on is largely a matter of getting up each time you are knocked down.
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To rise, save.
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‘Ware of dry rot either in your business or yourself.
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Instead of always trying to get the best of a bargain, try giving the best of it once in a while. Note the inward effect of your experiment.
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There’s no real fun in fooling people.
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Given health, work you enjoy is the greatest gift life holds.
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We can’t all be swift as hares, but surely we can get up as much speed as a tortoise.
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If Lincoln found time occasionally to smile, even in the midst of war, why should we go around with chronic grouches because of our petty inconveniences?
Bertie Charles Forbes

Low habits don’t lead to a high position.
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To be happy, be friendly.
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Staying-power is more important than braying-power.
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To get credit, first get a reputation.
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‘Nobody essential.’ But that’s no reason why you shouldn’t make yourself as essential as you can.
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What you are is more important than what you’ve got.
Bertie Charles Forbes

To manage men, be a gentleman.
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Remember, employees like to comply with requests rather than gruffly-given orders.
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The ass is noted for his braying, the mule for his kicking. Don’t ape either.
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Fill your job or your pay envelope may contain more than your wages – a dismissal slip.
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Succumb to luxuries and you may succumb to temptations to gratify them. Endure hardship, rather.
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Employers now want to know a young man’s school record. They like leaders.
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To last, stick to the last.
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‘I’ is at the center of happ-i-ness.
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It is better to err on the side of initiative than inactivity.
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Each of us carries within us a more accurate recording-machine than any made by human hands. Only, we don’t always exhibit the record.
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To have ‘principle’ adds to the ‘interest’ of business.
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First know where you want to get. Then concentrate upon fitting yourself to make the journey.
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Cheerfulness aids work as well as digestion.
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The fellow who feels above his job will always have others above him.
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There is one war that is never over: the war with self. How fares it?
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When anyone ‘puts over’ something on me I feel sorry – for him.
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If you feel that every man’s hand is against you it’s a sign that you’ve out only for Number One – and that other people know it.
Bertie Charles Forbes

The best sleeping-draught is a generous does of hard work.
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Shirk and you shrink.
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Succeeding comes only by trying.
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Patience is not only a virtue, but it pays.
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Stamina oftentimes is the parent of success.
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You cannot help the kind of brains you are born with, but you can help the kind you go through life with. And that’s what counts.
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