Malcolm Forbes Quotes

Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad.

One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.

SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism-- and there are those who think they are one and the same.

Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too.

You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous.

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

It is never too late to learn.

Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do.

Most of us are better when things go better.

The hardest work of all - doing nothing.

There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.

Where you're from only matters in relation to where you are.

It's much more profitable to sell investing advice than to follow it.

I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.

None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.

Advice: It's more fun to give than to receive.

Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better.

Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.

A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.

People who stare deserve the looks they get.

If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch.

Accepting blame when it's not really due sometimes makes the point better.

A big cigar in a young face requires the best of both.

It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.

Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

I was loaded with sheer ability, spelled i-n-h-e-r-i-t-a-n-c-e.

After 40, one's face begins to tell more than one's tongue.

Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.

One thing that previous practice doesn't always make perfect: Marriage.

Too few accomplish twice as much as too many.

The day nothing turns you on - you're dead. No matter how many more years you go on breathing.

Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.

One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing.

Thinkers perish, thoughts don't.

Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they're just uncovered anew.

Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn't want to be.

It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.

He who hesitates is sometimes wise.

The Palm is a joint for sadists to entertain masochists.

Anticipating is more fun than recollecting.

Listening to advice often accomplishes far more than heeding it.

When it's your own fault, things hurt worse than when someone else is to blame.

A hug's a happy thing while a shrug's so often destructive.

Trying to impress others does - usually in quite the opposite way.

Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes.

Speculator: One who bought stocks that went down.

It's the less bright students who make teachers teach better.

Clout is something some seem to have-until they try exercising it.

It doesn't take much of a rule to measure a mean man.

If you want understanding try giving some.