Malcolm Forbes Quotes

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

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

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

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

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• Men who never get carried away should be.

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

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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’s so much easier to suggest solutions when you don’t know too much about the problem.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Failure is success if we learn from it.

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

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• Elected leaders who forget how they got there won’t the next time.

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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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