B. C. Forbes Quotes

To succeed in sales, simply talk to lots of people every day. And here's what's exciting: There are lots of people!

Salespeople are the most vital people in any business. Without sales, the biggest and most sophisticated companies shut down. Sales are the spark plug in the engine of free enterprise. There is a direct relationship between the success of the sales community and the success of the entire country.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.

Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.

The number one thing small business needs is to get more customers. Spend more time serving existing customers and getting new ones. The challenge for small business is knowing where customers are and reaching them effectively.

If I don't get something done at the office at 4:30 in the afternoon, I can go back to it at 10:00 in the evening.

The most productive employees, from my experience, are those who go home at 5:30 P.M. but are hyperfocused at work. People can only think really hard for six to eight hours a day.

I have more time to work; I just do. Because once your kids are up and running, that frees you up a good 20, 30, hours a week.

Many business leaders still believe that time on-task equates to productivity. Even in the industrial era of rote factory work, this was untrue. It is a misguided fallacy, and an expensive one, too. Every key facet required for business success will fail when sleep becomes short within an organisation.

Very, very few people actually have long stretches of uninterrupted time at an office.

In our country, there must be two time zones to save working hours. Why we don't have it, I have been talking about this issue for a long time.

Acquiring customers at the start is one of the hardest things you'll ever experiences as an entrepreneur.

Normally I sleep in until 7, and most days, I go right into the office. On Tuesdays, though, I stay home and do work. I need a day when I'm not in meeting after meeting. You need time to try to get into your head again and see what's next.

I don't work more than 8 hours a day. At times, people get angry with me because of this, but I can't work more than that.

Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.

Busyness does not mean you are a faithful or fruitful Christian. It only means you are busy, just like everyone else.

Slowing down doesn't mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.

Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.

The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.

There are a lot of little tricks you can do to inject a bit more time into the day. Most important is limiting yourself to a 40 hour week, not working 50 hours or 60 or 70. It's just crazy. It's actually irresponsible to you and irresponsible to your family and friends. Why should your employer's profits be more important than your own family? You're not even going to get any of the profits - all you get is not losing your job. It's a very negative system.

just because something is fun doesn't mean it's a waste of time.

If you really want to be successful in the business, you have to make that your priority, above family and everything else. It takes up every minute of your life.

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.