Bertie Charles Forbes Quotes

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If you dig deep enough into the cause of your non-success you will find it. It is spelled s-e-l-f.
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To get up in the world get up steam.
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It’s better to be short of cash than short of character.
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If you can’t so manage your own affairs as to be ahead of the game, how can you expect others to trust you to handle their affairs.
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Laws cannot make prosperity. Only brains and brawn, industriously exercised, can.
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Ability and reliability make a good team.
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Winners might be spelled w-o-r-k-e-r-s.
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The only money worth having is the money you yourself earn.
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Prove your worth by improving it.
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To qualify to give order, be orderly.
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The measure of a man’s success is what he is and what he does, not what he has.
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Your boss does not determine your salary. You do.
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Happiness is usually to be found in effort.
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At least we can be rich in our own minds. And that, after all, is where the most worthwhile wealth resides.
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To score, set up a target.
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Loose spending is liable to land one in a tight corner.
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It pays to do a little better than seems necessary.
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Another way of spelling success: - s-w-e-a-t.
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I asked the president of the Central Union Trust Company of New York, George W. Davison, his formula for getting ahead. He replied in three short words: ‘Keep at it.’
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To salesmen: To qualify as an issuer of orders, get orders.
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Notice how often ‘I’ figures in initiative, that propeller towards success.
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The fellow who’s ‘not there’ won’t stay there long.
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Move or you’ll find yourself re-moved.
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The best time to loaf is after you’re dead.
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If you don’t take an interest in your work you’re not likely to draw much interest on savings.
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Being a real American isn’t a matter of birthplace. It’s a matter of mental makeup.
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Think and you won’t sink.
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Real doers rarely are doleful.
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A tip for girls in business. Pay more attention to making up your minds than to making up your face and you’ll fare better.
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It will better your own opportunity to give opportunity to others.
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A tough journey toughens the man made of the right stuff.
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Cinches may look and taste sweet for a time, but sooner or later they turn sour.
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A light heart makes work light.
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Use your will to take the hill.
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Character, like gold, is acceptable currency in all countries.
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Don’t make it necessary to have some one put over you to see that you keep up the pressure in your boiler.
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A short temper and a long head rarely go together.
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It may be trite to say that the only way to get happiness is to give it, yet a lot of people don’t seem to have learned it.
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No really big boss ever objects to having some fellow do his work for him. The big boss can always find something else bigger to do.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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