My Top 10 Forbes Thoughts on Youth

1. If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must know how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, attitudes, values and fantasies on everyday life.  --Eric Hoffer
2. You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.  --Aristotle  
3. Youth is young life plus curiosity minus understanding.  --Anthony Brooks
4. Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.  --Sholem Asch
5. I would not waste the springtime of my youth in idle dalliance; I would plant rich seeds to blossom in my manhood, and bear fruit when I am old.  --Richard Hillhouse
6. Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.  --Frank Lloyd Wright
7. You are only young once, but you can be immature forever.  --John P. Grier
8. The destiny of any nation, at any given time, depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty.  --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
9. Youth is young life plus curiosity minus understanding.  --Anthony Brooks
10. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he is likely to go in the world. The popular notion is that a youth’s progress depends upon how he acts during his working hours. It doesn't. It depends far more upon how he utilizes his leisure.... If he spends it in harmless idleness, he is likely to be kept on the payroll, but that will be about all. If he diligently utilizes his own time ... to fit himself for more responsible duties, then the greater responsibilities-and greater rewards-are almost certain to come to him.  --B.C. Forbes

My Top 10 Forbes Thoughts on Ability

1. They are able because they think they are able. -- Virgil
2. Ability is a poor man’s wealth.--Matthew Wren
3. The fine points that are uncovered in our work as a result of close study, diligent care, constant application and always trying to improve our methods represent the best and most valuable knowledge we get in business-and the sum total of that attentive attitude is what we call skill. -- Roderick Steven
4. Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.  --Publilius Syrus 
5. Forget yourself in your work. If your employer sees that you are more concerned about your own interests than about his, that you are fussy about getting credit of every little or big thing you do, then you are apt to be passed by when a responsible job has to be filled.... Don’t worry about how big an increase in your salary you can contrive to get. Don’t let your mind dwell on money at all, if you can help it. Throw yourself, body, soul, and spirit, into whatever you are doing.... The truth is that in every organization, no matter how large or how small, someone is taking notice of any employee who shows special ability. --Harry B. Thaye  
6. Ability is useless unless it’s used.--Robert Half
7. Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom under encouragement.--Donald A. Laird
8. Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.  --Cicero
9. A man with ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything.  --Donald Kirche
10. Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people.  --François de La Rochefoucauld