Malcolm Forbes Quotes

#1. He who hesitates is sometimes wise.

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#2. Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.

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

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#4. 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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#5. To seduce most anyone, ask for and listen to his opinion.

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#6. Those who talk loudly are rarely listened to.

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

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#9. If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.

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#10. The most difficult thing asked by our young is not our earnings but our ears.

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#11. If you say what you think don't expect to hear only what you like.

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#12. After 40, one's face begins to tell more than one's tongue.

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#13. Old age is not for sissies.

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#14. It doesn't take much of a rule to measure a mean man.

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#15. After the fact, our hearts always go out to the fallen Goliaths. Yet we invariably root for their Davids. Until they're winners.

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#16. 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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#17. Let your children go if you want to keep them.

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#18. 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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#19. One thing that previous practice doesn't always make perfect: Marriage.

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#20. A big cigar in a young face requires the best of both.

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#21. Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will

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#22. People who can't see without glasses should wear them.

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#23. If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.

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#24. We'd all like to be taken for what we'd like to be.

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#25. It's the less bright students who make teachers teach better.

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#26. It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.

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#27. He who says he never needs help, most does.

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#28. How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.

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#29. A gun in the hand is worth any number being tested.

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#30. It's never too late to learn.

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#31. Things there are no solution to: Inflation, bureaucracy & dandruff.

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#32. Clout is something some seem to have-until they try exercising it.

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#33. A winner must first know what losing's like.

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#34. There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.

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#35. One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.

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#36. Living and dreaming are two different things - but you can't do one without the other.

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#37. There's no way to move without making waves.

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#38. Money isn't everything as long as you have enough.

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#39. At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.

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#40. Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?

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#41. How to succeed? Try hard enough.

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#42. A lot of money doesn't make anyone more often right. It just makes him harder to correct.

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#43. I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS.

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#44. To measure the man, measure his heart.

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#45. The difference between towering and cowering is totally a matter of inner posture.

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#46. The day nothing turns you on - you're dead. No matter how many more years you go on breathing.

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#47. The best buy by way of management is brains-at any price.

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#48. 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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#49. Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.

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#50. By the time we've made it, we've had it.

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#51. Occasionally indulging in a do-nothing day is more than worth the price.

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#52. More often than not, things and people are as they appear.

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#53. 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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#54. A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

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#55. Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

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#56. 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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#57. Give naught, get same. Give much, get same.

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#58. Enlightening editorial writers is even more difficult than educating educators.

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#59. It's great to arrive, but the trip's most always most of the fun.

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#60. Looking the part helps get the chance to fill it. But if you fill the part, it matters not if you look it.

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#61. Speculator: One who bought stocks that went down.

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#62. What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at?

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#63. The Palm is a joint for sadists to entertain masochists.

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#64. Noone's a leader if there are no followers..

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#65. You can't fool the mirror-what you see is what you are.

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#66. Some days are for living. Others are for getting through.

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#67. Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers).

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#68. To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.

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#69. SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism
and there are those who think they are one and the same.

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#70. Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

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#71. If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch.

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#72. 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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#73. Accepting blame when it's not really due sometimes makes the point better.

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#74. When you catch what you're after, it's gone.

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#75. The art of conversation lies in listening

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#76. Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they're just uncovered anew.

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

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#78. When it's your own fault, things hurt worse than when someone else is to blame.

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#79. I don't waste too much time philosophizing about wealth, I just recommend it to everyone.

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#80. Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.

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#81. 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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#82. If you can read and don't, you're dumb.

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#83. Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.

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#84. Working at what you enjoy is far more important than what you're working at.

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#85. Listening to advice often accomplishes far more than heeding it.

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#86. How to fail: Try too hard.

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#87. Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn't want to be.

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#88. Socialism will be here the day we share our profits to the degree we share our failures.

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#89. Too few accomplish twice as much as too many.

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#90. Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

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#91. Presence is more than just being there.

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#92. 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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#93. The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.

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#94. Those carried away by power are soon carried away.

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#95. If you don't know what you want to do, it's harder to do it.

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#96. 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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#97. Once in a while there's wisdom in recognizing that the Boss is.

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#98. There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

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#99. Advice: It's more fun to give than to receive.

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#100. Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes.

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