Malcolm Forbes Quotes

After the fact, our hearts always go out to the fallen Goliaths. Yet we invariably root for their Davids. Until they're winners.

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

I don't waste too much time philosophizing about wealth, I just recommend it to everyone.

Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?

The last thing you do the best is what you have the most joy doing.

If you can read and don't, you're dumb.

A lot of money doesn't make anyone more often right. It just makes him harder to correct.

How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won't be room for us.

How to fail: Try too hard.

Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't.

Looking the part helps get the chance to fill it. But if you fill the part, it matters not if you look it.

Working at what you enjoy is far more important than what you're working at.

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

When young, you're shocked by the number of people who turn out to have feet of clay. Older, you're surprised by the number of people who don't.

You can't fool the mirror-what you see is what you are.

Once in a while there's wisdom in recognizing that the Boss is.

. . . the most difficult thing asked by our young is not our earnings but our ears.

Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.

The hardest time to tell: when to stop.

When you catch what you're after, it's gone.

What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at?

When you don't understand, it's sometimes easier to look like you do.

Enlightening editorial writers is even more difficult than educating educators.

Security isn't securities. It's knowing that someone cares whether you are or cease to be.

Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.

If you don't know, it's not always necessary to admit it.

Personal & Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter, though, the minifrauder succeeds in sowing illwill & ire.

Any marriage that survives a big wedding can probably survive.

An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short.

How to get taken: Spend most of your time making sure you're not.

A Tax Loophole: A deduction that the other guy gets.

Hoarding one's hurts hurts only the hoarder.

Economists' unanimity that bad business is ahead is the most reassuring news possible. It's very unlikely that this will be the one time they're right.

What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in?

Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.

Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must return from Washington after 24 months.

If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.

Socialism will be here the day we share our profits to the degree we share our failures.

A gun in the hand is worth any number being tested.

The ultimate high: A man's abilities equaling his opinion of'em.

When those with ability at their job get to thinking they can't be done without, they're already on their way out.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

If you do not know what you're doing stacked on his desk, a dozen colleagues Initially sticks with a large number of papers and pass them. In case of doubt, the way in.

The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks around 'em risk wringing.

When profit is unshared, it's less likely to grow greater.

You have to come up in the world before it's worthwhile for those worth less to put you down.

Those carried away by power are soon carried away.

The art of conversation lies in listening

The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.

Acceptance and Work If you have a job without aggravations you don't have a job.