Malcolm S. Forbes

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