Malcolm S. Forbes Quotes

Most popular Malcolm S. Forbes Quotes

The best vision is insight. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
The best vision is insight.
— Malcolm S. Forbes

management insight

Failure is success if we learn from it. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
— Malcolm S. Forbes

failure

Presence is more than just being there. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
Presence is more than just being there.
If you never budge, don't expect a push. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
— Malcolm S. Forbes

hard work self-reliance

By the time we've made it, we've had it. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
By the time we've made it, we've had it.
— Malcolm S. Forbes

age time

Give naught, get same.  Give much, get same. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
Give naught, get same.  Give much, get same.
— Malcolm S. Forbes The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Giving

The more sympathy you give, the less you need. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
— Malcolm S. Forbes in Forbes magazine

service

To be agreeable while disagreeing—that's an art. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
To be agreeable while disagreeing—that's an art.

disagreement

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
— Malcolm S. Forbes Forbes

ability

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

retirement

Once you've given advice to someone, you're obligated. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
Once you've given advice to someone, you're obligated.
— Malcolm S. Forbes The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

advice

By inflection you can say much more than your words do. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
By inflection you can say much more than your words do.
— Malcolm S. Forbes

communication

If you say what you think, don't expect to hear what you like. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
If you say what you think, don't expect to hear what you like.
— Malcolm S. Forbes

holding your tongue speak your mind

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
— Malcolm S. Forbes

work

The ultimate high: A man's abilities equaling his opinion of 'em. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
The ultimate high: A man's abilities equaling his opinion of 'em.
— Malcolm S. Forbes The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

ability

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open mind. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open mind.
— Malcolm S. Forbes

education open-mindedness

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
— Malcolm S. Forbes

the self

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

problems

A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
— Malcolm S. Forbes

funny human nature boring people

A bore: Someone who persists in holding to his own views after we have enlightened him with ours. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
A bore: Someone who persists in holding to his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
— Malcolm S. Forbes The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

boring people

A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it.
— Malcolm S. Forbes

management work power career

It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.
— Malcolm S. Forbes

business CEO

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

adversity

Trees sent Joyce Kilmer, but nothing quite sends most Americans like the smell of a new car interior and the soul-satisfying sound of shutting a new car door.  There are few among us who don't find that sound as exciting as any bar of music. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
Trees sent Joyce Kilmer, but nothing quite sends most Americans like the smell of a new car interior and the soul-satisfying sound of shutting a new car door.  There are few among us who don't find that sound as exciting as any bar of music.
— Malcolm S. Forbes The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

cars

Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? Will federal and state laws be enacted with effective enforcement clauses? Will people be concerned long enough to pay the bill through higher prices? Will towns tolerate lost jobs when it proves too costly to clean obsolete plants? ... I think so, but it sure won't be as easy as the present outcry and political oratory suggest. The answers to preserving a livable environment are not all simple, and some of the nuts now pushing simplistic cure-alls won't help bring about any lasting solutions. - Malcolm S. Forbes quote.
Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? Will federal and state laws be enacted with effective enforcement clauses? Will people be concerned long enough to pay the bill through higher prices? Will towns tolerate lost jobs when it proves too costly to clean obsolete plants? ... I think so, but it sure won't be as easy as the present outcry and political oratory suggest. The answers to preserving a livable environment are not all simple, and some of the nuts now pushing simplistic cure-alls won't help bring about any lasting solutions.
— Malcolm S. Forbes

environment

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
— Malcolm S. Forbes

education