User:Mdd/Examples/The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

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Quotes listed in Wikiquote, July 2014, from The Forbes Book of Business Quotations. This sourcebook is mentioned about 6 times as primary source and two times as secondary source.

Quotes[edit]

  • Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.
    • Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet Quoted in "The Forbes Book of Business Quotations" (1997) by Edward C. Goodman, Ted Goodman , p. 411
  • When the power of love replaces the love of power, man will have a new name: God.
    • Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970): January 20
    • Variant: When the power of love divinely replaces the love of power, man will have a new name: God. Source: Sri Chinmoy (1971): My rose petals: the master's extemporaneous talks in Europe, Sri Chinmoy Centre, p. 31. Google Books link.
    • Variants: My books, they all have only one message: the heart's Power Of Love must replace the mind's Love Of Power. If I have the Power Of Love, then I shall claim the whole World as my own ... World Peace can be achieved when the Power Of Love replaces the Love Of Power.
      • Cited to Chinmoy's book My Heart Shall Give A Oneness-Feast (1993)
    • In The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (1997) edited by Edward C. Goodman and Ted Goodman, p. 639 a similar statement has become attributed to William Ewart Gladstone, but without any earlier citation: "We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace." No earlier occurrences have been located. A similar statement has also become attributed to Jimi Hendrix, though he could have been quoting or paraphrasing Chinmoy, or conceivably Gladstone: "When the power of love overcomes love of power the world will know peace."
  • My books, they all have only one message: the heart's Power Of Love must replace the mind's Love Of Power. If I have the Power Of Love, then I shall claim the whole World as my own ... World Peace can be achieved when the Power Of Love replaces the Love Of Power.
  • I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
  • It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.
  • Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
    • Katharine Hepburn in: Ted Goodman, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 10,000 Thoughts on the Business of Life, Black Dog Publishing, 2007, p. 21
  • Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
    • John D. Rockefeller As quoted in The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (2007) edited by Ted Goodman, p. 175

Disputed[edit]

  • We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
    • Attributed to William Ewart Gladstone in The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (1997) edited by Edward C. Goodman and Ted Goodman, p. 639; a similar statement has also become attributed to Jimi Hendrix: "When the power of love overcomes love of power the world will know peace." This is flatly denied to have ever been said by him, without presenting any evidence as to why, beyond such unsupported, derisive and denigrative statements such as the author rants about others making in "WHAT HENDRIX NEVER SAID : They Don't Want to Know What He Really Said and Demand a Slacker Fantasy Instead" (22 March 2010) by Michael Fairchild, at rockprophecy.com. A similar quotation he provides of Sri Chinmoy predates any currently located source of either the Hendrix or Gladstone attributions, yet he accuses Chinmoy of simple plagiarism of Gladstone (or "Gladwell" at one point). From Chinmoy's book My Heart Shall Give A Oneness-Feast (1993) he quotes: "My books, they all have only one message: the heart's Power Of Love must replace the mind's Love Of Power. If I have the Power Of Love, then I shall claim the whole World as my own ... World Peace can be achieved when the Power Of Love replaces the Love Of Power." An even earlier statement of Chinmoy is found in Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970): "When the power of love replaces the love of power, man will have a new name: God."

Misattributed[edit]

  • It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
    • Misattributed to Louis Pasteur. See: Lajos Kossuth (also known as Louis Kossoth), as quoted in Human Development in Action (1942) by University of California, and The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (1997) by Edward C. Goodman and Ted Goodman.

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