Bertie Charles Forbes Quotes

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Drive yourself, not others.
Bertie Charles Forbes

‘Riches have wings.’ Yes, but not strong enough to carry anyone to the hilltop of success.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Do, or by and by you will undone.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Our best possessions are our thoughts and our friends.
Bertie Charles Forbes

The sign every business concern looks for most keenly is the one that appears on the dotted line.
Bertie Charles Forbes

In a sense, our companions are our partners. They help to make or unmake us.
Bertie Charles Forbes

It will pay you better to think out how to do your work better than to think out how to get the better of your boss.
Bertie Charles Forbes

To control a big organization is fine. To control self is better.
Bertie Charles Forbes

In these days the employee who is worth little is worthless.
Bertie Charles Forbes

The man who gives to his life’s work the best that is in him usually gets a fair return in the end.
Bertie Charles Forbes



Not a few of those who work the hardest need money the least. The recompense they seek is not make of metal.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Conceit is an attribute of the weak.
Bertie Charles Forbes

The idea to have: ‘If the office does not dignify me, I shall dignify the office.’
Bertie Charles Forbes

A licking once in a while helps to keep us in condition.
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Envy poisons.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Don’t work for applause. Work for results. The applause will then take care of itself.
Bertie Charles Forbes

A famous publisher recently issued this admonition to his editors: ‘Give both sides, and if there are three sides to any case, give the third one also.’ Is there a thought in this for you?
Bertie Charles Forbes

Work your imagination, yes. But also work.
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To be a gentleman, just be gentle.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Battle, but don’t prattle.
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Play the game, and, win or lose, be game.
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There are some failures in Fifth avenue palaces and some successes in unskilled labor gangs.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Be your own efficiency expert by doing your job the best way it can be done.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Are you sure your troubles are not mostly self-created?
Bertie Charles Forbes

To get, give.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Neither fortune nor fame comes from lying long abed.
Bertie Charles Forbes

The best kind of pride is pride in your work.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Grouchiness pays no dividends.
Bertie Charles Forbes

To become an all-round man, be on the square.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Give rope to hope.
Bertie Charles Forbes



Organize, systematize, deputize, realize.
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Mankind’s arch enemy is ignorance.
Bertie Charles Forbes

A fourth of July thought: The best brand of independence is independence of handicapping habits.
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What counts is not ‘How much have you?’ but ‘What have you done?’
Bertie Charles Forbes

Indolence leads to idleness and idleness to iniquity.
Bertie Charles Forbes

To become a top-notcher, keep in top-notch fettle mentally and physically.
Bertie Charles Forbes

The whole philosophy of life can be summed up in two little words: Be kind.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.
Bertie Charles Forbes

When everything moves smoothly for any length of time, watch out.
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Poverty can be a disgrace.
Bertie Charles Forbes



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