The Appendix for "Keys to Success in the 21st Century"
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Date Published: April 27, 2025
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This appendix is all new information with pictures and one-page overviews of some individuals B. C. Forbes interviewed and wrote about as his time as editor of Forbes Magazine. The appendix is all new information added to B. C. Forbes' "Keys to Success in the 21st Century." See an example in the image above or below for "Owen D. Young: CEO of General Electric."
Peter E. Greulich, Author and Editor
- The Appendix by Peter E. Greulich added to B. C. Forbes' "Keys to Success in the 21st Century"
In the introduction B. C. Forbes wrote:
“Curiously, I do not feel that I have written this book. Its authors, rather, are a hundred or more of our best-known captains of industry, statesmen, writers, and a few sages of former days. … They have given of their best in the hope of helping others to rise.”
Additionally, he offered this insight not only into these individuals but into all of mankind:
“All this must not be interpreted as meaning that any one of us can aspire to perfection, for ‘a just man sinneth seven times a day.’ ... We can be sinners and yet retain our self-respect—Christ sacrificed Himself for that end.”
Yes, we should expect the best—even seek it out, but we also need to understand that all of mankind “sins and falls short of the Glory of God.” May this book provide a few positive and encouraging insights as it focuses on the best traits of a few of America’s most successful individuals. They are its focus: those individuals who supported our country’s and, at times, our world’s best social, political, and economic systems with well-formed commercial foundations.
In 1926, A. W. Shaw, editor of System: The Magazine of Business, asked business leaders of their day to evaluate their peers with the following question: “Who, among you, have made the greatest contributions to the development of business in the first quarter of the 20th Century.”
It is interesting to compare the ten individuals cited in this work by A. W. Shaw with those included in B. C. Forbes’ “Keys to Success” from a decade earlier. Listed in order are A. W. Shaw’s top ten economic leaders—as seen by their peers, who contributed the most to business development in the first quarter of the 20th Century—note the inclusion of Herbert Hoover before he became the 31st President of the United States.
Highlighted individuals are included in this Appendix:
These individuals, too, were responsible for what B. C. Forbes often described in multiple ways as the ongoing “changing attitude of early twentieth-century business leaders” towards their customers, employees, shareholders—investors, and supportive societies … even to the point of how they started cooperating positively with each other.
These early twentieth-century business leaders were a tireless crew who believed in democracy, capitalism and individualism.
Too many of them have been subjected to calumny for too long in this new century.
Their positive influences and keys to success need to be put forth again for a new generation to understand that obstacles can be overcome—even in a many-sided republic of self-regulating states that are filled with democratic, independently-minded, overly-raucous individuals. … Individuals, who if they chose to, could overcome their shortcomings like those who are included in the "Keys to Success in the 21st Century's" appendix as follows:
“Curiously, I do not feel that I have written this book. Its authors, rather, are a hundred or more of our best-known captains of industry, statesmen, writers, and a few sages of former days. … They have given of their best in the hope of helping others to rise.”
Additionally, he offered this insight not only into these individuals but into all of mankind:
“All this must not be interpreted as meaning that any one of us can aspire to perfection, for ‘a just man sinneth seven times a day.’ ... We can be sinners and yet retain our self-respect—Christ sacrificed Himself for that end.”
Yes, we should expect the best—even seek it out, but we also need to understand that all of mankind “sins and falls short of the Glory of God.” May this book provide a few positive and encouraging insights as it focuses on the best traits of a few of America’s most successful individuals. They are its focus: those individuals who supported our country’s and, at times, our world’s best social, political, and economic systems with well-formed commercial foundations.
In 1926, A. W. Shaw, editor of System: The Magazine of Business, asked business leaders of their day to evaluate their peers with the following question: “Who, among you, have made the greatest contributions to the development of business in the first quarter of the 20th Century.”
It is interesting to compare the ten individuals cited in this work by A. W. Shaw with those included in B. C. Forbes’ “Keys to Success” from a decade earlier. Listed in order are A. W. Shaw’s top ten economic leaders—as seen by their peers, who contributed the most to business development in the first quarter of the 20th Century—note the inclusion of Herbert Hoover before he became the 31st President of the United States.
Highlighted individuals are included in this Appendix:
- Henry Ford, Ford Motor Co.
- Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce
- Elbert H. Gary, United States Steel Corporation
- Thomas A. Edison, Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
- A. W. Shaw, A. W. Shaw Company
- Henry S. Dennison, Dennison Manufacturing Co.
- John H. Patterson, N.C.R. Company
- Frederic Taylor, Taylor System of Scientific Mgmt.
- Owen D. Young, General Electric Company
- Julius Rosenwald, Sears, Roebuck and Company
These individuals, too, were responsible for what B. C. Forbes often described in multiple ways as the ongoing “changing attitude of early twentieth-century business leaders” towards their customers, employees, shareholders—investors, and supportive societies … even to the point of how they started cooperating positively with each other.
These early twentieth-century business leaders were a tireless crew who believed in democracy, capitalism and individualism.
Too many of them have been subjected to calumny for too long in this new century.
Their positive influences and keys to success need to be put forth again for a new generation to understand that obstacles can be overcome—even in a many-sided republic of self-regulating states that are filled with democratic, independently-minded, overly-raucous individuals. … Individuals, who if they chose to, could overcome their shortcomings like those who are included in the "Keys to Success in the 21st Century's" appendix as follows:
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Allen, C. Louis
Armour, J. Ogden Bedford, Alfred C. Bell, Alexander Graham Bush, Irving T. Carnegie, Andrew Davison, Henry P. Dollar, Robert Douglas, William L. Duke, James Buchanan Eastman, George Edison, Thomas A. Farrell, James A.. |
Field, Cyrus W.
Field, Marshall Ford, Henry Frick, Henry Clay Gary, Elbert H. Girl, Christian Goodyear, Charles Goethals, George W. Gompers, Samuel Harriman, Edward H. Hepburn, A. Barton Hill, James J. Kingsley, Darwin P. |
McCormick, Cyrus H.
Mills, Darius O. Reynolds, George M. Ripley, E. P. Rockefeller Jr., John D. Rosenwald, Julius Schwab, Charles M. Swope, Gerard Vail, Theodore N. Vanderlip, Frank A. Willys, John N. Wilson, Thomas E. Woolworth, Frank W. Young, Owen D. |
Peter E. Greulich, Appendix to "Keys to Success in the 21st Century"
This is an example of the information included in this book on each of the individuals above.
