Top 100 Quotes About Forbes
#4. Accepting blame when it's not really due sometimes makes the point better.
Malcolm Forbes
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch.
Malcolm Forbes
#8. Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.
Malcolm Forbes
#9. 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
#10. SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism
and there are those who think they are one and the same.
Malcolm Forbes
#11. To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.
Malcolm Forbes
#12. Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers).
Malcolm Forbes
#13. Words can't describe... shouldn't be in a writer's vocabulary.
Mary M. Forbes
#14. 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
#15. Some days are for living. Others are for getting through.
Malcolm Forbes
#16. You can't fool the mirror-what you see is what you are.
Malcolm Forbes
#17. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B.C. Forbes
#18. Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.
Esther Forbes
#19. 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
#20. Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.
John Forbes Nash
#21. A shady business never yields a sunny life.
B.C. Forbes
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Occasionally indulging in a do-nothing day is more than worth the price.
Malcolm Forbes
#25. 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
#26. The Palm is a joint for sadists to entertain masochists.
Malcolm Forbes
#27. What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at?
Malcolm Forbes
#28. Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
B.C. Forbes
#30. You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.
Steve Forbes
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
B.C. Forbes
#34. It's great to arrive, but the trip's most always most of the fun.
Malcolm Forbes
#35. Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
B.C. Forbes
#36. Enlightening editorial writers is even more difficult than educating educators.
Malcolm Forbes
#37. 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
#38. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#45. Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
Malcolm Forbes
#46. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
B.C. Forbes
#47. 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
#48. A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
Malcolm Forbes
#49. 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
#51. Personal & Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter, though, the minifrauder succeeds in sowing illwill & ire.
Malcolm Forbes
#52. 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
#53. He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
B.C. Forbes
#54. The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
B.C. Forbes
#55. Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.
Willie Stargell
#56. More often than not, things and people are as they appear.
Malcolm Forbes
#58. Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes.
Malcolm Forbes
#59. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
B.C. Forbes
#61. I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.
Esther Forbes
#62. 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
#63. 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
#65. There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.
Malcolm Forbes
#66. I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at all, but is simply a varient for of upper-class politics & self-privileging.
Jack D. Forbes
#67. Once in a while there's wisdom in recognizing that the Boss is.
Malcolm Forbes
#68. Kill time and you will kill your career.
B.C. Forbes
#69. 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
#70. The people I know who suffer from mental illness, sometimes they do connect you to what it is to be really human. There's a vulnerability there, there's something very potent.
Maya Forbes
#71. Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
B.C. Forbes
#72. The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.
Steve Forbes
#73. 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.
Malcolm Forbes
#74. If you don't know what you want to do, it's harder to do it.
Malcolm Forbes
#75. What you do as president has consequences.
Steve Forbes
#76. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in his powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors.
B.C. Forbes
#77. The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here.
Steve Forbes
#78. There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one's best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
B.C. Forbes
#79. There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
John Forbes Nash Jr.
#81. Those carried away by power are soon carried away.
Malcolm Forbes
#82. Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
B.C. Forbes
#83. Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
B.C. Forbes
#84. The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.
Malcolm Forbes
#85. 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.
Malcolm Forbes
#86. White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.
James A. Forbes
#87. They reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.
Esther Forbes
#88. I'd like to think I'm an actor who leaves things at work.
Michelle Forbes
#89. saying. 'I want it as a birthday present to my venerable
Esther Forbes
#90. Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.
Randy Forbes
#91. I've never had a plan. You look for different actors you want to work with or different subjects you want to explore, or sometimes it's just a momentary fancy.
Michelle Forbes
#92. When you make a movie, it's a movie, and things change based on who you put in the movie. And so it's, you know, obviously not exactly your life, but I feel that I did learn a lot about my parents.
Maya Forbes
#93. Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
B.C. Forbes
#94. To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
John Forbes Nash Jr.
#95. The words, 'penalty,' 'restrict' and 'violate' appeared more times in President Clinton's health care reform bill than in his crime bill.
Steve Forbes
#96. Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
B.C. Forbes
#97. The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain in Birmingham, Alabama.
James A. Forbes
#99. Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.
John Forbes Nash Jr.
#100. Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
Malcolm Forbes
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