Malcolm Forbes Quotes

• We’d all like to be taken for what we’d like to be.

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• The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.

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• Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

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• Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will.

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• Itʹs always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.

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• You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them.

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• To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.

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

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• When you cease to dream you cease to live.

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

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

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• To measure the man, measure his heart.

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

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

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

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• The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

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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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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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