Top 237 Quotes & Sayings by Malcolm Forbes

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American publisher Malcolm Forbes.
Last updated on October 15, 2024.
Malcolm Forbes

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes was an American entrepreneur most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, founded by his father B. C. Forbes. He was known as an avid promoter of capitalism and free market economics, and for an extravagant lifestyle, spending on parties, travel, and his collection of homes, yachts, aircraft, art, motorcycles, and Fabergé eggs.

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it. — © Malcolm Forbes
If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
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.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
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.
People who never get carried away should be.
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
By the time we've made it, we've had it.
Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job. — © Malcolm Forbes
If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
Presence is more than just being there.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
Men who never get carried away should be.
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
Let your children go if you want to keep them.
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
To measure the man, measure his heart.
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
The best vision is insight.
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route. — © Malcolm Forbes
If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
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.
There are a handful of companies who understand all successful business operations come down to three basic principles; People---Product---Profit. Without top people, you cannot do much with the other two.
As you get older, don't slow down. Speed up. There's less time left!
The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes, when they do.
The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.
In the long run, a short cut seldom is.
It's always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.
If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.
Old age is not for sissies.
The dumbest people I know are those who know it all. — © Malcolm Forbes
The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.
Money isn't everything as long as you have enough.
The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.
The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.
Age isn't important until you run out of it.
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
The art of conversation lies in listening.
At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.
Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.
One of the ceaseless wonders of the world: The power of a smile.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
The difference between towering and cowering is totally a matter of inner posture.
There's no way to move without making waves.
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