"The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head."
- Elizabeth Bibesco
"Are you doing the kind of work you were built for so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparativel..."
- B. C. Forbes
"The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success."
"Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful business giants and ... you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush al..."
"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 mar..."
"If I had read as much as other men I should have known no more than they."
- Thomas Hobbes
"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."
- Malcolm Forbes
"Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast a man consumed with earnestness of purpose with confidence in his powers with faith in the..."
"It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room."
- Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
"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 h..."