Bertie Charles Forbes Quotes

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To compete, be competent.
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Getting on means keeping on.
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Conquer in the battles with yourself, and the battle of life will become easier.
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Notice that ideas start with ‘I.’
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Opportunity comes often than once – but never stays long if not welcomed.
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Look in and look up.
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Don’t ride the high horse. The fall, when it comes, is hard.
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Don’t be switched.
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Sourness spoils men as well as milk.
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Prosperity stays only with those it does not spoil.
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You may be ever so busy, but if you are doing the thing in the wrong way, you won’t get very far.
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Wed intelligence to your industry.
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If your principles are all right, your policies don’t matter so very much.
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Your aim may be all right, but how about your weapon – meaning you?
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The Golden Rule really isn’t made of tinsel.
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His impatience has prevented many a fellow from taking firm root in the soil of success. Don’t expect to reap the moment you sow.
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Education and edification are synonymous.
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‘Knock and it shall be opened’ doesn’t apply to knockers.
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Principles pay the best interest.
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Just because you have a good opinion of yourself is no reason why you should have a poor opinion of others.
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Self-conceit is self-destruction.
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It isn’t the color of your skin that determines whether you are ‘white’ or not.
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Work is the richest of all gold mines. It yields infinitely more than money, when tackled in the right spirit.
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Only goats ‘lose their goats.’
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Power is not to be regarded as conferring privileges but as imposing serious obligations.
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Impudence and incompetence usually go together.
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Before pay envelopes can be filled the company’s treasury must be filled. And only honest production and honorable selling can do that.
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It’s as easy to learn to be happy as it is to be grouchy – and there’s a lot more fun in it.
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Fit yourself for work and you will find work that will fit you.
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It’s all right to be particular about what you put on your body, but be still more particular about what you put in your head.
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‘Carry on’ is just as good a slogan today as it was during the war.
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Money is like honey: a little of it is sweet, but a superabundance cloys.
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Charles H. Sabin says there’s a vein of pay dirt in every employee. Are you working yours to the limit?
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Luck and work are twins.
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The real fun is in the battle for success, not in the rewards victory lays in your lap.
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Insuring your life helps to insure your peace of mind.
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What you put into your head is very important. What you deliver out of your head is still more important.
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Stupidity is most often the result of laziness. Get busy.
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Edison – who ought to know – says the key to success is ‘Thinking.’ How goes it with you? Some people only think they think.
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Unhappiness can be spelled with four letters: Debt.
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