Top 100 Malcolm Forbes Quotes
#3. The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks around 'em risk wringing.
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#4. Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.
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#5. Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers).
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#6. You can't fool the mirror-what you see is what you are.
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#7. Occasionally indulging in a do-nothing day is more than worth the price.
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#8. The Palm is a joint for sadists to entertain masochists.
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#10. Enlightening editorial writers is even more difficult than educating educators.
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#12. None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.
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#13. A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
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#14. Personal & Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter, though, the minifrauder succeeds in sowing illwill & ire.
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#15. More often than not, things and people are as they appear.
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#17. Once in a while there's wisdom in recognizing that the Boss is.
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#18. Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.
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#19. If you don't know what you want to do, it's harder to do it.
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#20. How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won't be room for us.
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#21. Working at what you enjoy is far more important than what you're working at.
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#22. Unconsciously I had discovered the commentator's secret weapon-that so long as you can wield words, it isn't necessary to know what you're talking about.
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#23. Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.
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#24. At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.
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#25. People who can't see without glasses should wear them.
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#26. When young, you're shocked by the number of people who turn out to have feet of clay. Older, you're surprised by the number of people who don't.
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#28. The top people of the biggest companies are, surprisingly, often the nicest ones in their company I'm not sure, though, if they got there because they were good guys or that they're now good guys because they can afford to be.
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#31. Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must return from Washington after 24 months.
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#33. 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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#34. The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
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#35. It doesn't take much of a rule to measure a mean man.
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#37. Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.
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#38. It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.
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#39. The day nothing turns you on - you're dead. No matter how many more years you go on breathing.
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#40. The difference between towering and cowering is totally a matter of inner posture.
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#42. I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS.
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#43. Money isn't everything as long as you have enough.
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#45. One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.
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#46. Things there are no solution to: Inflation, bureaucracy & dandruff.
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#48. How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.
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#50. When one seeks assurance, there's none from those who respond, Now, don't you worry about a thing. If you weren't worried, you wouldn't have asked. If you are concerned, it's nice to know that those you query are, too. I'll take a worrier any day over a platitudinous reassurer.
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#52. Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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#53. If you do not know what you're doing stacked on his desk, a dozen colleagues Initially sticks with a large number of papers and pass them. In case of doubt, the way in.
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#54. Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who don't reach desired destinations.
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#55. People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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#57. When you don't understand, it's sometimes easier to look like you do.
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#58. An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short.
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#59. Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
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#60. Since we had nothing to do with our arrival and usually are not consulted about our departure, what makes so many of us think we're entitled to so much while we're here?
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#61. Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose.
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#62. Security isn't securities. It's knowing that someone cares whether you are or cease to be.
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#63. A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.
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#65. When the joy of the job's gone, when it's no fun trying anymore, quit before you're fired.
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#66. Trying to impress others does - usually in quite the opposite way.
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#67. If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.
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#68. If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.
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#69. Daydreams are doable. The turn-on is not in scale, spectacle, or cost. It's in the doing. Anything you haven't done is an adventure. Wanting to is the principal requirement. If you can do and want to, don't not. In short, while alive, live.
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#72. People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke.
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#73. You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous.
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#76. The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.
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#77. It's much more profitable to sell investing advice than to follow it.
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#79. On New York's Palm restaurant: 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.
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#81. For some of us it seems like yesterday when Ike was in the White House, the U.S. Senate censured Joe McCarthy, and the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in public school was unconstitutional.
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#82. Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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#83. If you don't know, it's not always necessary to admit it.
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#84. If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
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#86. In business, there's such a thing as an invaluable person, but no such thing as an indispensable one.
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#87. Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.
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#88. Economists' unanimity that bad business is ahead is the most reassuring news possible. It's very unlikely that this will be the one time they're right.
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#89. A hug's a happy thing while a shrug's so often destructive.
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#90. Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.
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#91. 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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#92. As you get older, don't slow down. Speed up. There's less time left!
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#93. When you don't want something enough to make the effort, making an effort is a waste.
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#94. I make more money selling advice than following it
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#96. The ultimate high: A man's abilities equaling his opinion of'em.
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#97. The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes, when they do.
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#98. 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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#100. I don't think anybody can be a success who doesn't like what they do. [But it's] no job if it has no challenge; there's nothing to it if there are no problems. The essential thing is liking what you're doing.
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