Quotes by Malcolm Forbes

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
– Malcolm Forbes
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
– Malcolm Forbes
By the time we've made it, we've had it.
– Malcolm Forbes
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
– Malcolm Forbes
Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
– Malcolm Forbes
Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
– Malcolm Forbes
Executives who get there and stay suggest solutions when they present the problems.
– Malcolm Forbes
Failure is success if we learn from it.
– Malcolm Forbes
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
If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
– Malcolm Forbes
If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
– Malcolm Forbes
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
– 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
It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
– Malcolm Forbes
It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
– Malcolm Forbes
Let your children go if you want to keep them.
– Malcolm Forbes
Men who never get carried away should be.
– Malcolm Forbes
Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
– Malcolm Forbes
One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.
– Malcolm Forbes
Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
– Malcolm Forbes
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
– Malcolm Forbes
People who never get carried away should be.
– Malcolm Forbes
Presence is more than just being there.
– Malcolm Forbes
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
– Malcolm Forbes
The best vision is insight.
– Malcolm Forbes
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
– Malcolm Forbes
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
– Malcolm Forbes
The Palm is a joint for sadists to entertain masochists.
– Malcolm Forbes
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
– Malcolm Forbes
Their steaks are often good, but the lobsters-with claws the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's forearms-are as glazed and tough as most of the customers.
– 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
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
– Malcolm Forbes
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
– 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
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
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
– Malcolm Forbes
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
– Malcolm Forbes
To measure the man, measure his heart.
– Malcolm Forbes
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
– Malcolm Forbes
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
– 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 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
– Malcolm Forbes
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.
– Malcolm Forbes
There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.
– Malcolm Forbes