Bertie Charles Forbes Quotes

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The concern or individual that fails to build up goodwill goes bankrupt sooner or later. The chief ingredient in goodwill is courtesy.
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Ancestors are initiators. Descendants too often are imitators.
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Don’t withhold your word of praise until your friend or your employee is dead.
Bertie Charles Forbes

If you have become sat-isfied, it is a sign you have sat down.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Faint heart ne’er won fame or fortune.
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Are you a drone? Employers, like bees, oust drones sooner or later.
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Ideas are born of knowledge. Before inspiration comes perspiration.
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You are not loyal to yourself if you are not loyal to your organization.
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To get on, learn to get on with other people.
Bertie Charles Forbes

The worker who cuts down his effort cuts down his character.
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If you keep on treading the right track, you are likely some day to get an unexpected ‘lift.’
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Bees don’t whine, they hum while working. And how they co-operate! Result, honey.
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Are you a thoroughbred? It has been well said that the cart horse goes until he can’t go another inch and then gives up; that the thoroughbred goes until he can’t go another inch – and then goes the other inch.
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Expect disappointments, but scorn defeat.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Caruso painstakingly studied phonograph records of his songs to find how he could improve his work. Can you afford to be less painstaking in trying to improve your work?
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Dream, yes. But, also, wake up!
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Genuine courtesy springs from the heart, not from the lips.
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Wrestle manfully with fate, and lo, you will find fate has been transformed into fortune!
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Beware lest pride of possession becomes an obsession.
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The fellow who is always kicking up a dust ends by being kicked out.
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In business, base acts on facts.
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Curious, but the more of others’ burdens we bear the greater our strength to carry our own.
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Common sense is the foundation of achievement.
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There’s more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck-driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Become a pusher, not a pawn.
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Rudeness retards.
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The best boss has to do little of it.
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Your habits are the raw material which finally forms your character.
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It’s better to be straight than smart.
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Great achievement must be preceded by great preparation.
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Every time we act we release a homing bird which shall one day return. Are you sending forth bluebirds? Or birds of prey?
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Heroes are duty-doers.
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Victory or defeat is not determined at the moment of crisis, but during the long, unspectacular period of preparation.
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Don’t read to pass the time, but to pass knowledge into your heard.
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Self-praise estops the praise of others.
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Many an express has come to grief trying to turn a sharp corner. If you want to get ahead successfully, steer clear of them.
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The power of a steam engine doesn’t lie in its whistle or the steam it blows off. Same with you.
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To discharge responsibilities, become loaded with knowledge of them.
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To avoid becoming a bore, bore.
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