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

About Malcolm Forbes

Malcolm Stevenson Forbeswas an American entrepreneur and politician most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, which was founded by his father B. C. Forbes. He was known as an avid promoter of capitalism and free market economics and for an extravagant lifestyle, spending on parties, travel, and his collection of homes, yachts, aircraft, art, motorcycles, and Faberge eggs.

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

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

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

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

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

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

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

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

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 (1919-1990)

People who never get carried away should be.

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

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 (1919-1990)

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 (1919-1990)

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 (1919-1990)

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

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

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

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

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

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

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

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

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

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

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

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

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

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

Pay your people the least possible and you’ll get from them the same.

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

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

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

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

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

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

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

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

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

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

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

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

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

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

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

Presence is more than just being there.

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

To measure the man, measure his heart.

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

The best vision is insight.

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

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 (1919-1990)

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

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

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

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

Men who never get carried away should be.

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)

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

Malcolm Forbes

American publisher (1919-1990)