Top 100 Quotes About Forbes
#1. As for the financial world - I've been working in the Forbes building for eight years. You soak up a little bit of ambient stuff about all this - I know what a gold straddle is, what the Lombard rate is.
Christopher Buckley
#2. Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.
Willie Stargell
#3. As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.'
Jeremy Stoppelman
#4. You certainly have a higher quality of life when you are not on the Forbes list. It just means that your security changes, and you're known for the wrong things.
Ronald Burkle
#5. This book [ "Win"] is based on the interviews with three dozen Fortune 400 - or Forbes 400, the richest people, and a couple dozen of the top CEOs.I wanted to know what language they use to be successful, and I wanted to know the attributes that could then be applied to the average individual.
Frank Luntz
#6. Despite the absence of Queen Elizabeth II's name in annual Forbes Rich Lists, everyone in the room was aware the Queen was one of the wealthiest people in the world, if not the wealthiest. However, hers and the House of Windsor's assets and income were mostly non-declared.
James Morcan
#7. On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that 400 list and start making phone calls! Bill and Melinda [Gates] did the same thing. So keep publishing
the list so I can milk it.
Warren Buffett
#8. If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
Lamar Alexander
#9. She quoted the Reverend James Forbes as saying, Nobody gets into heaven without a letter of reference from the poor.
Anne Lamott
#10. What's more they are also some of the best-paid entertainers in history: Curtis Jackson, aka 50 Cent, raked in U.S. $150 million in 2008 alone, placing him on top of Forbes's "Hip-Hop Cash Kings" list.
Peter Mcallister
#11. I remember I was in grade school, the fourth grade, in a free reading period in the library. Someone in my class found a copy of the Forbes 400, a list of the richest people in America, and my dad's name was on it.
Jamie Johnson
#12. Not everyone can come and post on Forbes; it's a very distinguishing factor for us. We vet the folks who come on board.
Michael Perlis
#13. pants on. "We have to go. We can't let Forbes
Taylor Buck
#14. Atheists are the fastest-growing religious subgroup in all fifty states. There are more atheists in this country than there are Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists combined and doubled. ["Unbelievable! Atheists to Rally in Record Numbers", Forbes, 21 March 2012]
David Silverman
#15. I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn't vote for a guy who wouldn't reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing.
Esther Dyson
#16. Our content carries the Forbes name, and our whole mantra is to put authoritative journalism at the center of the social media experience.
Michael Perlis
#17. McKinney, Texas is the number one place to live in the country. It's certainly the number place to live in Texas according to Forbes and all these other. Wonderfully integrated, it's upscale.
Geraldo Rivera
#18. 'Forbes' has championed entrepreneurism since its founding.
Michael Perlis
#19. One Forbes article suggests that as many as 53 percent of college graduates are unemployed or underemployed relative to their education level.
Shannon Young
#20. I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section.
Allan Sloan
#21. Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Robert Orben
#22. We'll have, by the end of 2013, 30 local language editions of Forbes, many of those are pioneers in the markets they serve with Forbes. We launched recently in Thailand and Vietnam, and we're in China and Korea and all around Latin America.
Michael Perlis
#23. Money is not the thing that drives me. I like to develop assets to create value. No one cares how rich you are or what your ranking is in Forbes magazine.
Mikhail Prokhorov
#24. If everybody who was in the Forbes 400 said they were going to create 10,000 jobs, by my mathematics, that would be 4 million jobs.
William E. Conway Jr.
#25. Forbes was highly motivated by Noynoy's words: ... Therefore in order to make this country better, you don't need grandiose platforms, all you have to do is to do your job, and do it well, rightly, and in accordance with the principled objective.
Wilfrido V. Villacorta
#26. The campaigns of Steve Forbes, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and John McCain all outperformed expectations on their support from independent voters. They made no effort to shy away from ideology, but conveyed to voters that their policies were driven by principle, not party talking points.
John Sununu
#27. A Forbes journalist referred to bitcoin as digital collectible.
Anonymous
#28. I can't recall ever once having seen the name of a market timer on Forbes' annual list of the richest people in the world. If it were truly possible to predict corrections, you'd think somebody would have made billions by doing it.
Peter Lynch
#29. Forbes did a story on , when I seen it in Forbes I was just like, "This looks good!" and it felt good so I just went ahead and posted it. As soon as I posted it, people started calling and congratulating me and then it really started sinking in that it was a real accomplishment.
Ryan Montgomery
#30. When things are bad, we take a bit of comfort in the thought that they could always be WORSE. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get BETTER.' - Malcolm S. Forbes.
Rachel Renee Russell
#31. Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
Adam Gopnik
#32. The gap between rich and poor is widening dramatically. There's a hangar at the Cairo airport for private jets, billionaires are on the Forbes list, and Egypt's annual per-capita income is two thousand dollars. How can you sustain that?
Mohamed ElBaradei
#33. As a young man he seemed to pine for a bygone world of aristocrats. [In his twenties, he] took to wearing Edwardian three-piece suits with a pocket watch and chain.
[discussing Kip Forbes]
Benjamin Wallace
#34. Publications such as Forbes and Fortune continually rank Georgia cities as among the best places to live, work and run a business.
Roy Barnes
#35. If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.
Peter Diamandis
#36. Forbes describes how Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize-winning psychologist, discovered that "people would rather do business with a person they like and trust rather than someone they don't, even if the likeable person is offering a lower quality product or service at a higher price.
Sally Hogshead
#37. Just admit it, Elena. You're attracted to Damon and all his bad boy glory- Caroline Forbes
L.J.Smith
#41. Accepting blame when it's not really due sometimes makes the point better.
Malcolm Forbes
#42. 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.
Malcolm Forbes
#43. To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
B.C. Forbes
#44. If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch.
Malcolm Forbes
#45. Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.
Malcolm Forbes
#46. As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting corners grew exponentially. Power breeds corruption.
Steve Forbes
#47. SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism
and there are those who think they are one and the same.
Malcolm Forbes
#48. To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.
Malcolm Forbes
#49. Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers).
Malcolm Forbes
#50. Words can't describe... shouldn't be in a writer's vocabulary.
Mary M. Forbes
#51. The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore.
Rosita Forbes
#52. Some days are for living. Others are for getting through.
Malcolm Forbes
#53. You can't fool the mirror-what you see is what you are.
Malcolm Forbes
#54. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B.C. Forbes
#55. Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.
Esther Forbes
#56. Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.
John Forbes Nash
#57. Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.
John Forbes Nash
#58. A shady business never yields a sunny life.
B.C. Forbes
#59. I try to keep things as varied as possible in my career, and after playing something as fun and over the top as Maryann on 'True Blood,' I wanted to find something antithetical to that.
Michelle Forbes
#60. There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
B.C. Forbes
#61. Occasionally indulging in a do-nothing day is more than worth the price.
Malcolm Forbes
#62. If you can't do, you had best shut up. He started to slam the door, thought better of it. If you can't do, you'd best not slam doors.
Esther Forbes
#63. The Palm is a joint for sadists to entertain masochists.
Malcolm Forbes
#64. What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at?
Malcolm Forbes
#65. Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
B.C. Forbes
#67. You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.
Steve Forbes
#68. Looking the part helps get the chance to fill it. But if you fill the part, it matters not if you look it.
Malcolm Forbes
#69. For whatever reason, every project I do becomes sort of a cult, or a cultish show, you know, like 'Battlestar,' or even a film I did years ago, 'Kalifornia,' people refer to it as a cult film.
Michelle Forbes
#70. Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
B.C. Forbes
#71. It's great to arrive, but the trip's most always most of the fun.
Malcolm Forbes
#72. Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
B.C. Forbes
#73. Enlightening editorial writers is even more difficult than educating educators.
Malcolm Forbes
#74. Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.
B.C. Forbes
#75. People are not going to reelect Barack Obama. But will the new president govern as a real conservative? We're going to have to apply the heat to make sure.
Steve Forbes
#77. In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The time will come when the author of a view shall be set aside, and the view only taken cognizance of. This will be the millennium of Science.
Edward Forbes
#78. Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
B.C. Forbes
#79. We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill ... we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.
Esther Forbes
#80. 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.
Malcolm Forbes
#82. Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
Malcolm Forbes
#83. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
B.C. Forbes
#84. The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.
Edward Forbes
#85. A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
Malcolm Forbes
#86. The camels had strayed far in search of scarce grass. When collected, they displayed a fiendish ingenuity in throwing their loads and tangling themselves up in every possible strap.
Rosita Forbes
#88. Personal & Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter, though, the minifrauder succeeds in sowing illwill & ire.
Malcolm Forbes
#89. He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
B.C. Forbes
#90. The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
B.C. Forbes
#91. More often than not, things and people are as they appear.
Malcolm Forbes
#93. Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes.
Malcolm Forbes
#94. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
B.C. Forbes
#96. I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.
Esther Forbes
#97. A plant-based diet has actually simplified my life in so many ways. For breakfast, I try to get my first serving of fruits and nuts for fuel. I'm completely addicted to coconut water for the electrolytes and hydration.
Michelle Forbes
#98. The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.
Steve Forbes
#100. There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.
Malcolm Forbes
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