Top 237 Quotes & Sayings by Malcolm Forbes - Page 2

The hardest work of all - doing nothing.

To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.

No one ever dies wishing they'd spent more time at the office.

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

When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done.

It's a very short trip. While alive, live.

Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who don't reach desired destinations.

There are more fakers in business than in jail.

Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.

Noone's a leader if there are no followers.

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.

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

People who can’t see without glasses should wear them.

In business, there’s such a thing as an invaluable person, but no such thing as an indispensable one.

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

Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.

When you don't want something enough to make the effort, making an effort is a waste.

When the joy of the job's gone, when it's no fun trying anymore, quit before you're fired.

Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do.

People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke.

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

Once you've given advice to someone, you're obligated.

A winner must first know what losing's like.

I was loaded with sheer ability, spelled i-n-h-e-r-i-t-a-n-c-e.

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

Where you're from only matters in relation to where you are.

All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn't be a dull boy.

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

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

How to fail: Try too hard.

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.

I make more money selling advice than following it

Those who talk loudly are rarely listened to.

Most of us are better when things go better.

Nothing is sometimes the right thing to say.

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

Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will

I don't think anybody can be a success who doesn't like what they do. [But it's] no job if it has no challenge; there's nothing to it if there are no problems. The essential thing is liking what you're doing.

Too few accomplish twice as much as too many.

How to succeed? Try hard enough.

One cannot walk into an April day in a negative way. With spring, each man's plans and hopes result in new efforts, fresh actions. All of which has a mighty important bearing on the economy. There are those of us who think that the psychology of man, each and together, has more impact on markets, business, services and building and all the fabric of an economy than all the more measurable statistical indices.

I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.

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

One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.

A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective.

Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose.

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

Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad.

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

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

It's much more profitable to sell investing advice than to follow it.

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

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

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

A little reciprocity goes a long way.

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

He who says he never needs help, most does.

Victory is sweetest when you've know defeat. Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. You pay for everything, even including speaking your mind (with or without one). Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.

Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too.