S Forbes Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.

Peter Diamandis

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

Adam Gopnik

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. One Forbes article suggests that as many as 53 percent of college graduates are unemployed or underemployed relative to their education level.

Shannon Young

#11. 'Forbes' has championed entrepreneurism since its founding.

Michael Perlis

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. She quoted the Reverend James Forbes as saying, Nobody gets into heaven without a letter of reference from the poor.

Anne Lamott

#16. If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.

Lamar Alexander

#17. 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

#18. Be Practical. That's probably the most stupid piece of advice I've ever received in my life.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#19. 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

#20. Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

Willie Stargell

#21. 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