Malcolm Forbes Quotes

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

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• By the time we’ve made it, we’ve had it.

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• Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

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

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• It’s more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

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• 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.

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• Acceptance and Work If you have a job without aggravations, you don’t have a job.

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• Let your children go if you want to keep them.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• The best vision is insight.

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• Presence is more than just being there.

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• People who never get carried away should be.

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

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

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

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• If you never budge, don’t expect a push.

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Malcolm Forbes (49)

Birth:	19th August, 1919
Death:	24th February, 1990
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Publisher

About

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes was publisher of Forbes magazine, founded by his father B. C. Forbes. He was known as a promoter of capitalism and for extravagant spending on parties, travel, and his collection of homes, yachts, aircraft, and art.

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