Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital subject in a long letter to all his salesmen. He uses as his text a passage from Robinson Crusoe which included this: ""My Father bid me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and were not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind.
Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating. - B. C. Forbes
Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
- B. C. Forbes
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter. - B. C. Forbes
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
Plan your work - work your plan - B. C. Forbes
Plan your work - work your plan
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. - B. C. Forbes
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
Real riches are the riches possessed inside. - B. C. Forbes
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
If you do the best and the most you can today, don't worry about tomorrow. - B. C. Forbes
If you do the best and the most you can today, don't worry about tomorrow.
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. - B. C. Forbes
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming. - B. C. Forbes
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable. - B. C. Forbes
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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