Malcolm Forbes Quotes

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

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

- Malcolm Forbes

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

- Malcolm Forbes

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

- Malcolm Forbes

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

- Malcolm Forbes

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

- Malcolm Forbes

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

- Malcolm Forbes

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

- Malcolm Forbes

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

- Malcolm Forbes

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

- Malcolm Forbes

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

- Malcolm Forbes

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

Presence is more than just being there.

- Malcolm Forbes

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

- Malcolm Forbes

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

- Malcolm Forbes

It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

- Malcolm Forbes

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

- Malcolm Forbes

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

- Malcolm Forbes

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

- Malcolm Forbes

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

- Malcolm Forbes

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

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.

- Malcolm Forbes

The best vision is insight.

- Malcolm Forbes

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

- Malcolm Forbes

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

- Malcolm Forbes

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

- Malcolm Forbes

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

- Malcolm Forbes

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

- Malcolm Forbes

People who never get carried away should be.

- Malcolm Forbes

Men who never get carried away should be.

- Malcolm Forbes

Failure is success if we learn from it.

- Malcolm Forbes

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

- Malcolm Forbes

To measure the man, measure his heart.

- Malcolm Forbes

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

- Malcolm Forbes

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

- Malcolm Forbes