Quotes By Malcolm Forbes

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

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

Presence is more than just being there.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

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.

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

People who never get carried away should be.

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

The best vision is insight.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.