Henry Ford has several times sneered at unproductive stockholders.... Well, now. Let's see. Who made Henry Ford's own automobile company possible? The stockholders who originally advanced money to him. Who makes it possible for you and me to be carried to and from business by train or street car? Stockholders.... Who made our vast telephone and telegraph service possible? Stockholders.... Were stockholders all over the country to withdraw their capital from the enterprises in which they are invested, there would be a panic ... on a scale never before known.
Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating. - B. C. Forbes
Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
- B. C. Forbes
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.
Plan your work - work your plan - B. C. Forbes
Plan your work - work your plan
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.
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.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable. - B. C. Forbes
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming. - B. C. Forbes
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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