What did B. C. Forbes mean by: Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity. B. C. Forbes Journalist · Scotland Copy
+ Use life to provide something that outlasts it. Author, July 20, 2023January 2, 2025, B. C. Forbes, Contribution, Immortality, Legacy, 0 B. C. Forbes Journalist · Scotland
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck. Author, December 27, 2023January 1, 2025, B. C. Forbes, Focus, Opportunity, Success, 0 B. C. Forbes Journalist · Scotland
+ Jealousy… is a mental cancer. Author, October 29, 2023January 2, 2025, B. C. Forbes, Destructive, Emotional, Envy, 0 B. C. Forbes Journalist · Scotland
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion. Read explanation Author, December 27, 2023January 1, 2025, B. C. Forbes, Growth, Motivation, Perseverance, 0 B. C. Forbes Journalist · Scotland
+ Real riches are the riches possessed inside. Author, October 25, 2023January 2, 2025, B. C. Forbes, Internal, Values, Wealth, 0 B. C. Forbes Journalist · Scotland
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. Author, December 27, 2023January 1, 2025, B. C. Forbes, Action, Power, Success, 0 B. C. Forbes Journalist · Scotland
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. Read explanation Author, December 27, 2023January 1, 2025, B. C. Forbes, Hard Work, Patience, Success, 0 B. C. Forbes Journalist · Scotland
+ The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses. Author, September 28, 2023January 2, 2025, B. C. Forbes, Excuses, 0 B. C. Forbes Journalist · Scotland
Our biggest mistakes, were things we didn’t do, companies we didn’t buy. Read explanation Charlie Munger Business person
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Read explanation Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan’s deflation is another’s inflation. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
