B. C. Forbes Quotes:
Ocupation: Journalist
Life: May 14, 1880 - May 6, 1954
Birthday: May 14
Death: May 6
When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of businessmen have been showing less sense than a hen since orders became scarce. They have laid off salesmen; they have stopped or reduced their advertising; they have simply resigned themselves to inaction and, of course, to pessimism. If a hen knows enough to scratch all the harder when the worms are scarce, surely businessmen ... ought to have gumption enough to scratch all the harder for business.
topic: Perseverance, Order, Gumption, Laid Off, Resigned
