How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly "I was wrong."

— B. C. Forbes

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

— B. C. Forbes

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

— 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. When few comforts come from without it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw on from within.

— B. C. Forbes

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

— B. C. Forbes

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

— B. C. Forbes

Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation by actual experience in the school of life by ceaseless alertness to learn from others by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects by constant study of human nature.

— B. C. Forbes

Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly enthusiastically unremittingly woo her.

— B. C. Forbes

Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement the less perfect our success.

— B. C. Forbes

Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself looked it full in the face and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure you're a chicken-lizard coward if you hesitate.

— B. C. Forbes