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.
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Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
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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.
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People who never get carried away should be.
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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.
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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.
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
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Let your children go if you want to keep them.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that’s happiness.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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If you have a job without any aggravations, you don’t have a job.
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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
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If you never budge, don’t expect a push.
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If you expect nothing, you’re apt to be surprised. You’ll get it.
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Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
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Pay your people the least possible and you’ll get from them the same.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he’s hired to do.
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It’s so much easier to suggest solutions when you don’t know too much about the problem.
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It’s more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
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Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.
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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
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Presence is more than just being there.
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To measure the man, measure his heart.
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The best vision is insight.
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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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.
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By the time we’ve made it, we’ve had it.
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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won’t the next time.
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Men who never get carried away should be.
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Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
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