Malcolm Forbes Quotes

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

Education, Mind, Purpose

Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes

Success, Failure, Learn

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes

Education, Mind, Purpose

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

Politics, Business, Democracy

When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcolm Forbes

Dreams, Live, Dream

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

Hope, Bad, Thought

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Malcolm Forbes

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

Life, Trying, Enjoy

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

Old, Makes, Getting

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

Doubt, Along, Pass

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

Problem, Solutions, Suggest

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

Nothing, Jobs, Diamonds

By the time we've made it, we've had it.
Malcolm Forbes

Let your children go if you want to keep them.
Malcolm Forbes

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
Malcolm Forbes

Everybody, Somebody, Anybody

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

History, Sing, Prison

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

Else, Everyone, Matter

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

Old, Read, Anyone

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

Same, Possible, Pay

The best vision is insight.
Malcolm Forbes

Best, Vision, Insight

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
Malcolm Forbes

Art, Thinking, Together

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Malcolm Forbes

Victory, Defeat, Known

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
Malcolm Forbes

Time, Half, Beats

Presence is more than just being there.
Malcolm Forbes

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

Enjoy, Lose, Authority

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Publisher

Born: August 19, 1917

Died: February 24, 1990

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