Malcolm S. Forbes Quotes

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