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

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

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

People who never get carried away should be.
Malcolm Forbes

Presence is more than just being there.
Malcolm Forbes

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

The best vision is insight.
Malcolm Forbes

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

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
Malcolm Forbes

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

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

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

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

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
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

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

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