Quotes By Malcolm Forbes

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

The best vision is insight.

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.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

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.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

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.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

People who never get carried away should be.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

To measure the man, measure his heart.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

Failure is success if we learn from it.