Malcolm Forbes Quotes

• If you have a job without any aggravations, you don’t have a job.

  Malcolm Forbes

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

  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

• 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

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• Failure is success if we learn from it.

  Malcolm Forbes

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• Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

  Malcolm Forbes

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

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

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• Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.

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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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