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Malcolm Forbes
American
Publisher
About the author
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Dream
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Purpose
#Open
#Education
#Mind
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Thinking
#Planning
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Authority
#Responsibility
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#People
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,
American
Publisher
#Man
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Sympathy
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Want
#Happiness
To measure the man, measure his heart.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Heart
#Man
#Measure
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,
American
Publisher
#Hope
#Comfort
#Thought
The best vision is insight.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Vision
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Want
#Success
#Successful
Presence is more than just being there.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Being
People who never get carried away should be.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#People
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#People
Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#People
Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
Men who never get carried away should be.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Men
Let your children go if you want to keep them.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Want
#Children
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Old
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Defeat
#Victory
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Life
#People
#Trying
#Living
#Mistake
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Time
#Right
#Being
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,
American
Publisher
#Being
#Democracy
#Business
#Politics
#Tolerance
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Old
#Facts
#Fiction
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Success
#Failure
It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Fun
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,
American
Publisher
#Man
#History
#Prison
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Job
Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
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,
American
Publisher
#Doubt
By the time we've made it, we've had it.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Time
It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Time
#Forget
#Leaders
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Purpose
#Open
#Education
#Mind
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Art
#Thinking
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Nothing
#Jobs
If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
Malcolm Forbes,
American
Publisher
#Nothing