30 Inspirational B.C. Forbes Quotes On Success

B.C. Forbes was a Scottish-born American financial journalist and author who founded Forbes magazine. May his quotes inspire you to be the best that you can be from within.

“How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts.” B.C. Forbes

“If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.” B.C. Forbes

“History shows that the most famous winners usually had faced enormous difficulties. But they won because they refused to be defeated.” B.C. Forbes

“The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.” B.C. Forbes

“Without self-respect, there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success, what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his won self-respect.” B.C. Forbes

“A business like an automobile it has to be driven in order to get results.” B.C. Forbes

“It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal.” B.C. Forbes

“What do you pray for?” B.C. Forbes

“Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.” B.C. Forbes

“He who has faith has an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.” B.C. Forbes

“Turn resolutely to work.” B.C. Forbes

“Jealousy is a mental cancer.” B.C. Forbes

“What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.” B.C. Forbes

“The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.” B.C. Forbes

“Educations purpose is to replace an empty mind with n open one.” B.C. Forbes

“Spend your life on something that will outlast you.” B.C. Forbes

“The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.” B.C. Forbes

“Success comes if you love what you do. There is no other way to success.” B.C. Forbes

“Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.” B.C. Forbes

“He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.” B.C. Forbes

“The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.” B.C. Forbes

“Plan your work – work your plan.” B.C. Forbes

“You should remember that we need to consciously and constantly look for opportunities to increase the human happiness. Selfishness kills happiness.” B.C. Forbes

“One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is better than 50 half-finished tasks.” B.C. Forbes

“Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.” B.C. Forbes

“Bragging often precedes begging.” B.C. Forbes

“Wealth is spiritual, not material.” B.C. Forbes

“True wealth is the wealth of the soul.” B.C. Forbes

“The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.” B.C. Forbes

“Real riches are the riches possessed inside.” B.C. Forbes