Malcolm Forbes Quotes

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Malcolm Forbes

Profession : Publisher

Birth : August 19, 1919

When you cease to dream you cease to live

Malcolm Forbes

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Malcolm Forbes

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Malcolm Forbes

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

Malcolm Forbes

The best vision is insight.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Malcolm Forbes

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Malcolm Forbes

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.

Malcolm Forbes

Presence is more than just being there.

Malcolm Forbes

Men who never get carried away should be.

Malcolm Forbes

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.

Malcolm Forbes

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Malcolm Forbes

To measure the man, measure his heart.

Malcolm Forbes

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.

Malcolm Forbes

People who never get carried away should be.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Malcolm Forbes