Many A Man Thinks He

It's So Much Easier To Do Good Than To Be Good.

With All Thy Getting, Get Understanding, Is The Banner Under Which These Forbes Editorials Have Appeared Since The First Issue Of The Publication. We Have No Illusions About What Great Wealth Can Do And What It Cannot Do. We Believe In The Worthwhileness Of Striving By All Worthy Means To Attain Success And To Attain Wealth. Simply Because We Are Convinced That No Amount Of Money Is Worth The Sacrifice Of One's Better Instincts, Of One's Self-respect-of One's Soul, If You Wish-simply Because We Are Convinced That Riches Not Gained Legitimately And Decently Are Not Worth Having.

The British Have Their Own Conception Of What Constitutes The Typical American. He Must Have A Flavor Of The Wild West About Him. He Must Do Spectacular Things. He Must Not Be Punctilious About Dignity, Decorum And Other Refinements Characteristic Of The Real British Gentleman. The Yankee Pictured By The Briton Must Be A Bustler. If He Is Occasionally Flagrantly Indiscreet In Speech And Action, Then He Is So Much More Surely Stamped The Genuine Article. The Most Typical American The British Ever Set Their Eyes On Was, In Their Judgment, Theodore Roosevelt.

Success Consists Of Being And Doing, Not Simply Accumulating.

The Real Friend Is He Or She Who Can Share All Our Sorrow And Double Our Joys.