Quotes By 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

People who never get carried away should be.

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

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.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

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

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

Men who never get carried away should be.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Presence is more than just being there.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.