A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority
usually loses it.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
If you don’t have a job without any aggravations, you don’t have a job.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
When things are bad, we take 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
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
Be nice. Contrary to the cliche, genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it. I
admit it’s not easy when you’ve got a gripe. To be agreeable while disagreeing – that’s an
art. Be natural – write the way you talk.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
Pay your people the least possible and you’ll get from them the same.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
If you’re looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most
enjoy.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
It’s always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his
history.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
To measure the man, measure his heart.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do
nothing for them.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
How to succeed? Try hard enough.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
Failure is success if we learn from it.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
A bore: Someone who persists in holding to his own views after we have enlightened him with
ours.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he’s hired to do.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
There are more fakers in business than in jail.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished
tasks.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
I was loaded with sheer ability, spelled i-n-h-e-r-i-t-a-n-c-e.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
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.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
If you never budge, don’t expect a push.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
It’s so much easier to suggest solutions when you don’t know too much about the problem.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lives forever in debt to those who are kind.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
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.
– Malcolm S. Forbes
When what we are is what we want to be, that’s happiness.
– Malcolm S. Forbes