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Malcolm Forbes

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People who never get carried away should be.
Malcolm Forbes
Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what hes hired to do.
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
A hugs a happy thing while a shrugs so often destructive.
Malcolm Forbes
If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.
Malcolm Forbes
I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.
Malcolm Forbes
I made my money the old fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.
Malcolm Forbes
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
Malcolm Forbes
If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
Malcolm Forbes
Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who dont reach desired destinations.
Malcolm Forbes
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcolm Forbes
There's no way to move without making waves.
Malcolm Forbes
Give naught get same. Give much get same.
Malcolm Forbes
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
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
By the time we've made it, we've had it.
Malcolm Forbes
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
Malcolm Forbes
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
Malcolm Forbes
My Birthday What a different sound that word had in my youthful ear.
Malcolm Forbes
The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes, when they do.
Malcolm Forbes
Personal Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter though the mini frauder succeeds in sowing ill will ire.
Malcolm Forbes
Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
Malcolm Forbes
Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
Malcolm Forbes
The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.
Malcolm Forbes
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
Malcolm Forbes
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Malcolm Forbes
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Malcolm Forbes
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
Malcolm Forbes
Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
Malcolm Forbes
The best vision is insight.
Malcolm Forbes
The smart ones ask when they don’t know. And, sometimes, when they do.
Malcolm Forbes
I think the foremost quality “ there's no success without it “ is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.
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
Let your children go if you want to keep them.
Malcolm Forbes
It is unfortunate we cant buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.
Malcolm Forbes
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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
It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
Malcolm Forbes
The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.
Malcolm Forbes
Presence is more than just being there.
Malcolm Forbes
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
Malcolm Forbes
Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will.
Malcolm Forbes
If you have a job without aggravations you dont have a job.
Malcolm Forbes
Men who never get carried away should be.
Malcolm Forbes
The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.
Malcolm Forbes
Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
Malcolm Forbes
It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
Malcolm Forbes
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
Malcolm Forbes
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
Malcolm Forbes
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes
Compliment others on the virtues they have and theyre not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they dont have.
Malcolm Forbes
One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.
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
If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
Malcolm Forbes
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
Malcolm Forbes
Diversity the art of thinking independently together.
Malcolm Forbes
To measure the man, measure his heart.
Malcolm Forbes
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
Malcolm Forbes

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