B. C. Forbes Quotes

The Things That Are Most Worthwhile In Life Are Really Those Within The Reach Of Almost Every Normal Human Being Who Cares To Seek Them Out.

After Visiting Several Of America's Most Fashionable Playgrounds, I Have Reached The Conclusion That Men Who Work Hard Enjoy Life Most. The Men At Such Places Can Be Divided Into Two Classes, First, Busy Men Of Affairs ... And, Second, Rich Loafers. I Was Impressed By The Obvious Enjoyment Corporation Heads And Other Important Executives Were Deriving From Their Vacation Activities.... The Idle Rich Fellows, On The Other Hand, Although Indulging In Exactly The Same Activities, Palpably Were Bored.

The More I Move Among Workers And Factories And Other Plants, The Stronger I Become Convinced That It Is Advisable To Have As [a Company] President A Practical Man, Preferably One Who Has Risen From The Very Bottom Of The Ladder. Workmen, I Find, Have Far More Respect For Such Men Than For Collar-and-cuff Executives Knowing Little Or Nothing About The Different Kinds Of Work Which Have To Be Done By The Workers. Wherever Circumstances Call For Placing A Financier Or Lawyer Or A Papa's Son At The Head Of A Large Organization, He Should Be Made Chairman Or Some Other Title, But Not President.

The Man Without Religion Is As A Ship Without A Rudder.

It Is Not A Case Of Whether We Want To Wash Our Hands Of Europe Or Want To Help Her To Regain Her Feet. The Troubles Of Europe Have Been Laid On Our Doorstep, So To Speak, And Will Plague Us, If We Do Nothing To Cure Them, Whether We Like It Or Not.

Backboneless Employees Are Too Ready To Attribute The Success Of Others To Luck. Luck Is Usually The Fruit Of Intelligent Application. The Man Who Is Intent On Making The Most Of His Opportunities Is Too Busy To Bother About Luck.

It Is The Hard-boiled Employer, Not The Soft-hearted Species, That Incites Most Of Our Strikes And Does Most Ot Endanger The Harmonious Progress Of Democracy.

Many A Man Thinks He Is Patient When, In Reality, He Is Indifferent.

He Best Keeps From Anger Who Remembers That God Is Always Looking Upon Him.

I Resolve For 1920 To Sit Down All By Myself And Take A Personal Stock-taking Once A Month. To Be No More Charitable In Viewing My Own Faults Than I Am An Viewing The Faults Of Others. To Face The Facts Candidly And Courageously. To Address Myself Carefully, Prayerfully, To Remedying Defects.

Inflationary Trends Are Under Way. Wage Increases, Through Strikes Or Threatened Strikes, Are Rampant. Government Expenditures Are Ballooning Ominously. Hoarding Has Contributed Unconscionably To Price-boosting. The Government Should Institute Measures Calculated To Arrest Inflation. America's Commitments Are Already So Mountainous, International And Domestic, That The Pruning Knife Should Be Applied. You And I, All American Taxpayers, Don't Possess Limitless Resources-our Pockets Are Not Bottomless. Curb Inflation At Every Turn!

The Bell Of Public Opinion Is Today Making The Morgan-rockefeller-vanderbilt Class Jump. Nor Are The Strongest Of Our Corporations Immune. The Railroads Have Had To Jump Pretty Lively, And Certain Gigantic Industrial Combinations Are Also Being Put Through Their Paces.