Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

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Bertie Charles Forbeswas a Scottish-American financial journalist and author who founded Forbes magazine.

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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

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American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

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American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

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American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

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American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

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American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

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American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

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American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

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American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

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American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)

To make headway, improve your head.

B. C. Forbes

American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

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American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

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American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

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American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

B. C. Forbes

American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

B. C. Forbes

American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

B. C. Forbes

American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

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American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

B. C. Forbes

American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.

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American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

B. C. Forbes

American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)

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.

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American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

B. C. Forbes

American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

B. C. Forbes

American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

B. C. Forbes

American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880-1954)