Malcolm S. Forbes Quotes

1919–1990, American Publisher, Businessman
quotes
32
topics
12
Topic
“The best vision is insight.”
Vision
“Failure is success if we learn from it.”
Adversity
“Presence is more than just being there.”
Focus
“By the time we've made it, we've had it.”
Health
“If you never budge, don't expect a push.”
Risk
“When you cease to dream you cease to live.”
Dreams
“People who never get carried away should be.”
Enthusiasm
“Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.”
Victory
“The more sympathy you give, the less you need.”
Giving
“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.”
Ability
“Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.”
Diversity
“Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.”
Service
“When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.”
Happiness
“If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.”
Work
“People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.”
Importance
“Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.”
Right and Rightness
“If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.”
Expectation
“Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.”
Politicians and Politics
“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one”
Education
“Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.”
Management
“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”
Self-esteem
“Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.”
Business
“Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.”
Success
“Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.”
Thoughts and Thinking
“It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.”
Problems
“The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.”
Enjoyment
“Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.”
Responsibility
“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.”
Delegation
“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.”
Politicians and Politics