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Barry C. Forbes Quotes

«A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.»
«The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrows and double our joys.»
Author: Barry C. Forbes | Keywords: double, joys, sorrows
«I've never known any human being, high or humble, who ever regretted, when nearing life's end, having done kindly deeds. But I have known more than one millionaire who became haunted by the realization that they had led selfish lives.»
«Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.»
«Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.»
«The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...»
«Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.»
Author: Barry C. Forbes | About: Business
«Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea by itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.»
«It isn't success if it costs you the companionship and chumminess and love of your children.»
Author: Barry C. Forbes | Keywords: chumminess