Malcolm 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.Collection: Hope
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.Collection: Independence
By the time we've made it, we've had it.Collection: Time
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.Collection: Happiness
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.Collection: Politics
Failure is success if we learn from it.Collection: Success
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.Collection: Sympathy
The best vision is insight.Collection: Best
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.Collection: Education
When you cease to dream you cease to live.Collection: Dreams
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Presence is more than just being there.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
To measure the man, measure his heart.
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
People who never get carried away should be.
Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
Men who never get carried away should be.
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.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
Let your children go if you want to keep them.
Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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.
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.Collection: Inspirational
The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.Collection: Funny
Some days are for living. Others are for getting through.Collection: Bad Day
It's always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.Collection: Compassion
The art of conversation lies in listening.Collection: Inspirational
Money isn't everything as long as you have enough.Collection: Money
The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes, when they do.Collection: Smart
The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.Collection: Inspirational
Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.Collection: Wise
If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.Collection: Games
Nothing is sometimes the right thing to say.Collection: Sometimes
As you get older, don't slow down. Speed up. There's less time left!Collection: Speed