Failure is success if we learn from it.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Security isn't securities. It's knowing that someone cares whether you are or cease to be.

If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch.

Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office.... I worked in the mail cage, where envelopes were slit and subscription payments extracted. Dad used to come pounding down the office aisle and pause long enough to ask, How much today? Inevitably the answer was inadequate-except once. That day the controller said excitedly, Mr. Forbes, the ledger shows a slight profit this month! ... My father turned to him and said, Young man, I don't give a damn what your books show. Do we have any money in the bank?

I don't think anybody can be a success who doesn't like what they do. [But it's] no job if it has no challenge; there's nothing to it if there are no problems. The essential thing is liking what you're doing.

Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.