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Career, B.C. Forbes Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselling and scraping and polishing. - B.C. Forbes This quote is a metaphorical way of saying that building a career is not a one-time design process like an architect’s work, but a continuous process of refinement and improvement, much like a sculptor’s work. An architect designs a building and once the design is complete, the building is constructed according to that design. The architect’s job is essentially done once the design is handed over. This suggests a static, one-time process. On the other hand, a sculptor starts with a raw block of material and continuously shapes it, chisels away at it, polishes it, and refines it until the final piece of art is revealed. This is a dynamic, ongoing process that requires constant effort, attention, and refinement. So, when you’re told to think of yourself not as the architect, but as the ...

Class, B.C. Forbes 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." - B.C. Forbes 부유층, 중산층 그리고 빈곤층 중 누가 가장 행복할까요? 커다란 조직에서 매우 성공한 한 임원은 그의 모든 영업사원들에게 보내는 장문의 편지에서 이 중요한 주제에 대해 언급합니다. 그는 로빈슨 크루소의 한 구절을 인용하였는데, 다음과 내용이 있습니다. "아버지는 내게 그것을 관찰하라고 명령하셨고, 나는 항상 인생에서 재앙이 인간의 상류층과 하류층 사이에서 같이 공유되는 것을 발견하였습니다. 그러나 중산층은 가장 적은 재앙을 겪었고, 상류층이나 하류층 만큼 많은 역경을 겪지 않았습니다." - 버티 찰스 포브스 Class, B.C. Forbes, Happy, Rich, Middle class, Poor

Conscience, B.C. Forbes A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things I had learned in my first 40 years. I told him that the chief thing I had learned was that the copybook maxims are true, but that too many people forget this once they go out into the heat and hustle and bustle of the battle of life and only realize their truth once one foot is beginning to slip into the grave. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. - B.C. Forbes http://thoughts.forbes.com/thoughts/b-c-forbes 최근 한 잡지 편집자가 제 40번째 생일을 맞아 제가 40년 동안 배운 가장 중요한 것들에 대한 기사를 써달라고 부탁했습니다. 저는 제가 배운 가장 중요한 것은 진부한 격언이 사실이지만, 너무 많은 사람들이 인생의 전쟁터에 나가면 이를 잊고 한 발이 무덤에 빠지기 시작하고 나서야 진실을 깨닫는다는 것이라고 말했습니다. 양심을 희생하여 수백만 달러를 벌어들인 사람은 실패자입니다. - B.C. 포브스 Conscience, B.C. Forbes

We are told we should always speak well of the dead. But wouldn’t that sometimes be hypocrisy? The writer did not hesitate to criticize [American Woolen Co. head] William M. Wood during his life and now feels that his tragic death, by suicide, contains a lesson for at least a few of America’s large employers. When infirmity overtook him, he [attempted] works of repentance, but it was too late.... The writer knows that too many men of vast affairs are blind to the realities, the worthwhile things of life, and do not acquire a correct perspective until they feel themselves slipping toward the grave. - B.C. Forbes http://thoughts.forbes.com/thoughts/b-c-forbes

It is well for civilization that human beings constantly strive to gain greater and greater rewards, for it is this urge, this ambition, this aspiration that moves men and women to bestir themselves to rise to higher and higher achievement. Individual success is to be won in most instances by studying and diagnosing the kind of rewards human hearts seek today and are likely to seek tomorrow. - B.C. Forbes http://thoughts.forbes.com/thoughts/b-c-forbes

The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman, the prizes will be for those who most effectively exert their brains, who take deep, earnest and studious counsel of their minds, who stamp themselves as thinkers. - B.C. Forbes http://thoughts.forbes.com/thoughts/b-c-forbes