Malcolm Forbes Quotes

American - Publisher August 19, 1919 - February 24, 1990

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

Art Thinking Together Diversity

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

Education Mind Purpose Empty

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Success Failure Learn

The best vision is insight.

Best Vision Insight

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

Diamonds Nothing More Coal

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

You Always Scars Old

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

Time Half Right Being

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

Best Wise Thinking Doing

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Dreams Live You Dream Cease

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

People Many Too Too Many People

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Presence is more than just being there.

More Being There Presence Just

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

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

Life Mistake People Enjoy

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

Success You Way Doing

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

People You Your Possible

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

People Everyone Matter Who

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.

Politics Business Democracy Tolerance

To measure the man, measure his heart.

Heart Man Measure His

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.

Man Someone Know Enough

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

Facts Never Who Old

Men who never get carried away should be.

Men Never Get Away

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

You Someone Never Who

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

You Push Never Expect

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Somebody Everybody Anybody

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.

Hope Thought Bad Better

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

You Nothing Get Expect

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