Words matter. These are the best Malcolm Forbes Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
To measure the man, measure his heart.
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
If you never budge, don’t expect a push.
Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he’s hired to do.
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
Elected leaders who forget how they got there won’t the next time.
If you have a job without any aggravations, you don’t have a job.
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.
If you expect nothing, you’re apt to be surprised. You’ll get it.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
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.
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
People who never get carried away should be.
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
Pay your people the least possible and you’ll get from them the same.
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
By the time we’ve made it, we’ve had it.
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.
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.
It’s so much easier to suggest solutions when you don’t know too much about the problem.
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
It’s more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
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.
