Malcolm Forbes Quotes

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

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

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

Failure is success if we learn from it.

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

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

The best vision is insight.

Presence is more than just being there.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

Age isn't important until you run out of it.

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

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

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

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.

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

The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

A little reciprocity goes a long way.

Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.

One of the ceaseless wonders of the world: The power of a smile.

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

The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.

In the long run, a short cut seldom is.

To measure the man, measure his heart.

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

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

More often than not, things and people are as they appear.

Once you've given advice to someone, you're obligated.

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

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

Nothing is sometimes the right thing to say.

People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke.

How to succeed? Try hard enough.

It's always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.

It's great to arrive, but the trip's most always most of the fun.

Living and dreaming are two different things - but you can't do one without the other.

How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.

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

Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.

He who says he never needs help, most does.

Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will

It's never too late to learn.

Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose.

It's a very short trip. While alive, live.

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

To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.

If the shoe fits you're lucky.

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