Quotes by Malcolm Forbes

• When you cease to dream you cease to live.
• The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
• Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
• Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
• Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
• 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.
• The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
• When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
• To measure the man, measure his heart.
• 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.
• The best vision is insight.
• Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
• Presence is more than just being there.
• People who never get carried away should be.
• People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
• Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
• Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
• Men who never get carried away should be.
• Let your children go if you want to keep them.
• Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
• Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
• The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
• Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
• 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.
• Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
• Failure is success if we learn from it.
• 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.
• If you never budge, don't expect a push.
• If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
• Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
• 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.
• By the time we've made it, we've had it.
• It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
• Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
• Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
• Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
• Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
• If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.