Malcolm Forbes famous quotes

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Positive #Success #Gymnastics

The best vision is insight.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Inspirational #Business #Imagination

Failure is success if we learn from it.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Success

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Inspirational #Education #Travel

Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Wise #Want #Enough

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Art #Thinking #Diversity

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Business #Tolerance #Democracy

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Inspirational #Life #Inspiring

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Positive #Strength #People

It's great to arrive, but the trip's most always most of the fun.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Fun

When you cease to dream you cease to live.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Dream #Successful

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Jobs #Business #Work

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Success #Way #Doing What You Want

Presence is more than just being there.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Funny Relationship #Parenting #Focus

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Perseverance #Jobs #Writing

How to succeed? Try hard enough.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Inspirational #Trying #Succeed

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Sympathy #Kindness #Inspiration

It's always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Compassion #Worthwhile

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Funny Inspirational #People #Know It All

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Retirement #Hard Work #People

One of the ceaseless wonders of the world: The power of a smile.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#World #Wonder

One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.
-- Malcolm Forbes

Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#War #Mind #Way

A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Beach #Military #War

As you get older, don't slow down. Speed up. There's less time left!
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Speed #Slow Down

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Forgiveness #Scar #Score

In business, there’s such a thing as an invaluable person, but no such thing as an indispensable one.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Indispensable #Persons

More often than not, things and people are as they appear.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#People

Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Fire #Light #Paper

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Games #Good Times #Winner

To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Live Your Life #Losing

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Motivational #Business #Work

I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Money #Nice #Way

None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Hands #Giving #Joy

The art of conversation lies in listening.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Inspirational #Art #Lying

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Time #Enough Time #Enough

The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Boys #Men #Differences

To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Happiness #Art #Laughter

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Business #Insightful #Hiring

The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Funny Inspirational #Keys #Achievement

Noone's a leader if there are no followers..
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Success #Business #Leader

Let your children go if you want to keep them.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Family #Children #Want

Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Memories #Recollection

There are more fakers in business than in jail.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Jail

Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Yield #Purpose #Gestures

People who can’t see without glasses should wear them.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Glasses #People #Should

At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Heart #Good Business #Chief Executives

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Responsibility #Exercise #Authority

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Mistake #Reality #Past

If you never budge, don't expect a push.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Teaching #Persistence #Design

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Time #Half #Beats

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Love #Life #Family

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Men #Experts #Would Be

People who stare deserve the looks they get.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#People #Looks #Manners

When it's your own fault, things hurt worse than when someone else is to blame.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Hurt #Faults #Blame

Hoarding one's hurts hurts only the hoarder.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Hurt #Hoarding

When you don't understand, it's sometimes easier to look like you do.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Understanding #Looks #Sometimes

Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Science #Facts #Mystery

Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Young Love #Generations #Looks

All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn't be a dull boy.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Money #Boys #Play

Why, just a couple of economic seasons ago, was idle cash considered an indication of bad management or lazy management? Because it meant that management didn't have this money out at work ... Now look. Presto! A new fashion! Cash is back in! Denigrating liquidity has dropped quicker than hemlines. A management is now saluted if it has some cash, some liquidity, doesn't have to go to the money market at huge interest rates to get the wherewithal to keep going and growing. Along with Ben Franklin, my father and your father would understand and applaud this new economic fashion ....
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Fashion #Money #Couple

One cannot walk into an April day in a negative way. With spring, each man's plans and hopes result in new efforts, fresh actions. All of which has a mighty important bearing on the economy. There are those of us who think that the psychology of man, each and together, has more impact on markets, business, services and building and all the fabric of an economy than all the more measurable statistical indices.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Spring #Thinking #Men

If I owned any of these Hot New Issues that have doubled, tripled, quintupled or umptupled within days and in some cases hours after they were issued, I most certainly would grab my fabulous windfall, thank my lucky stars and invest the money. It's utter nonsense to think any newly issued stock is really worth two, ten or 20 times the [offering] price.... A management so stupid as to sell shares [cheap], and an underwriter so obtuse as not to discern the real value, together would provide reason enough for a sensible man to get rid of his shares.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Stars #Stupid #Real

All too often we say of a man doing a good job that he is indispensable. A flattering canard, as so many disillusioned and retired and fired have discovered when the world seems to keep on turning without them. In business, a man can come nearest to indispensability by being dispensable in his current job. How can a man move up to new responsibilities if he is the only one able to handle his present tasks? It matters not how small or large the job you now have, if you have trained no one to do it as well, you're not available; you've made your promotion difficult if not impossible.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Jobs #Moving #Responsibility

How to get taken: Spend most of your time making sure you're not.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Taken

When one seeks assurance, there's none from those who respond, Now, don't you worry about a thing. If you weren't worried, you wouldn't have asked. If you are concerned, it's nice to know that those you query are, too. I'll take a worrier any day over a platitudinous reassurer.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Nice #Worry #Worried

Those who talk loudly are rarely listened to.
-- Malcolm Forbes

Some of the biggest bores I've ever known are men who have been highly successful in business, particularly self-made heads of big companies. Before the first olive has settled into the first martini, they pour the stories of their lives into the nearest and sometimes the remotest ears capturable.... These men have indeed paid the price of success. To rise to the top of a big company often takes a totality of effort, concentration and dedication. Others, too, have to pay part of the price. Wife and children are out of mind even when in sight....
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Children #Successful #Men

If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Food #Watches #Figures

Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Half #Compliment #Virtue

The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes, when they do.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Smart #Sometimes

Once in a while there's wisdom in recognizing that the Boss is.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Wisdom #Boss #Recognizing

One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Real #Values

I haven't a clue about the biology or the psychology involved when a person dissolves into tears, but it is quite fascinating to note what turns them on. There are wives who can cascade over a late husband or a burned dinner, and equally pour tears of joy over a new bonnet or a renovated bathroom.... A while ago I took a ship back from Europe. Amid the tumbling confetti ... I found myself misty-eyed watching a young lady waving a tearful farewell to her boyfriend on the dock. I couldn't figure out if I was crying at her plight, or in delight that he wasn't coming along with us.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Husband #Farewell #Europe

For some of us it seems like yesterday when Ike was in the White House, the U.S. Senate censured Joe McCarthy, and the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in public school was unconstitutional.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#School #White #Yesterday

Since we had nothing to do with our arrival and usually are not consulted about our departure, what makes so many of us think we're entitled to so much while we're here?
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Thinking #Departure

Things there are no solution to: Inflation, bureaucracy & dandruff.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Life #Bureaucracy #Inflation

It is a damned sight easier to start wars than to end them. This truth has been stated for as long and as often as it has been ignored. High time and thank God, we are at least moving toward de-escalation in Vietnam. The road to extrication will be long, painful, bitter. But it must be trod. We are so bogged down in Vietnam that we cannot respond effectively anywhere else in the world to a military power play except through atomic bombardment.
-- Malcolm Forbes

#Military #War #Moving