Bertie Charles Forbes Quotes

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Your employer knows how good you are without your telling him. Say it with work.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Carve the right kind of place in men’s hearts and then you can safely leave to them the carving of the right kind of epitaph on your tombstone.
Bertie Charles Forbes

After all, others can do very little for you. You must do your own fighting and vanquishing, starting with self.
Bertie Charles Forbes

In the sea of life it is the lightweights who sink and the heavyweights who rise.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Operate and cooperate.
Bertie Charles Forbes

How you spend your own time will ultimately regulate how you will spend your time at work – high up or low down.
Bertie Charles Forbes

It’s better to say ‘I must’ than to need somebody else to say to you ‘You must.’
Bertie Charles Forbes

It’s more honest to waste your own money than waste the time your employer pays you for.
Bertie Charles Forbes

These spell failure: Fickleness, Affection, Indifference, Laziness, Uppishness, Recklessness, Envy.
Bertie Charles Forbes

If you have ceased to smile, you have lost out in the game of life, no matter what your bank account may be.
Bertie Charles Forbes



Principle makes for principal.
Bertie Charles Forbes

To keep straight, apply the Golden Rule.
Bertie Charles Forbes

It should be spelled Hop-portunity.
Bertie Charles Forbes

The Government imposes taxes on our income. We ourselves impose taxes on our output.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Work now, or wince later.
Bertie Charles Forbes

The only hopeless failure is the person who has ceased to strive for success.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Lying tends to keep a man down.
Bertie Charles Forbes

The doctors send a man up in an aeroplane to regain his lost voice. And he did. Some men who rise up in the world lose their heads.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Lasker and Capablance are not the only people who take a long time to make a move.
Bertie Charles Forbes

If you learn how to master yourself, you stand a good chance of learning how to master your job.
Bertie Charles Forbes



The fellow who attract ‘offers’ usually have offered to do a lot they weren’t hired to do.
Bertie Charles Forbes

To make an impression, strive to become a heavyweight.
Bertie Charles Forbes

How you fill your mind determines very largely how you will fill your pocket.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Pull a creditable load and you’ll need no ‘pull.’
Bertie Charles Forbes

When an unpleasant task lies ahead of you, get it behind you without delay.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Mules kick. Who wants to become known as a mule?
Bertie Charles Forbes

If you are always in time for your work you are apt to be in time for promotion. The late comer usually gets left.
Bertie Charles Forbes

The man who has never been ‘up against it’ is never likely to get up very far.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Guts gets there.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Kill time and you kill your career.
Bertie Charles Forbes



Move forward or you’ll become a back number.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Water that is stagnant becomes worthless. So do men.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Fame, reputation, only increases a man’s obligation to do still better.
Bertie Charles Forbes

To get on, get right.
Bertie Charles Forbes

There’s only one way to ‘get there’: go to it.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Losing your temper will never win you promotion.
Bertie Charles Forbes

A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
Bertie Charles Forbes

Each one of us enters a prize-ring every day.
Bertie Charles Forbes

We are no in the man-age. Learn to be a man-ager. Then you can command your own salary.
Bertie Charles Forbes

To rise, be on the level.
Bertie Charles Forbes



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