Malcolm forbes quotes

The best vision is insight.

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.

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

Money isn't everything as long as you have enough.

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

Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.

Living and dreaming are two different things - but you can't do one without the other.

One thing that previous practice doesn't always make perfect: Marriage.

Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.

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

To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.

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

I make more money selling advice than following it

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

It's much more profitable to sell investing advice than to follow it.

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

One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing.

Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better.

Daydreams are doable. The turn-on is not in scale, spectacle, or cost. It's in the doing. Anything you haven't done is an adventure. Wanting to is the principal requirement. If you can do and want to, don't not. In short, while alive, live.

To seduce most anyone, ask for and listen to his opinion.

Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.

Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.

In all the thrashing about that results from our dwindling gold reserves, it's about time that this country and other countries get some perspective on the situation. The day this country is out of the stuff, that day gold becomes what it's worth as a metal and no longer will have much significance as a monetary measurement. It isn't the gold we have that makes this nation rich. It's what we make, our knowhow, our productivity. So long as this country produces more and better, the world will continue to want what we make.

One of the ceaseless wonders of the world: The power of a smile.

The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. You can measure the awareness, the breadth and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be.

The best buy by way of management is brains-at any price.

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

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

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.

People who can’t see without glasses should wear them.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done.

More often than not, things and people are as they appear.

Things there are no solution to: Inflation, bureaucracy & dandruff.

A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective.

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

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

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

The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.

Some days are for living. Others are for getting through.

Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.

He who says he never needs help, most does.

It's a very short trip. While alive, live.

All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn't be a dull boy.

Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will

Those who talk loudly are rarely listened to.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous.

Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact.... In Indianapolis they have come up with a most sensible, affordable approach to the problem. Policemen are assigned their police patrol cars for personal use after hours. They are encouraged to use the police car while taking the family shopping, to the movies, and everywhere one takes one's family. As a result, says the Police Chief's assistant, we may have as many as 400 cars on the street instead of 100 or so per shift. [And] the presence of the police car obviously indicates the proximity of policemen.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes, when they do.

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.

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

Too few accomplish twice as much as too many.

Working at what you enjoy is far more important than what you're working at.

One cannot walk into an April day in a negative way. With spring, each man's plans and hopes result in new efforts, fresh actions. All of which has a mighty important bearing on the economy. There are those of us who think that the psychology of man, each and together, has more impact on markets, business, services and building and all the fabric of an economy than all the more measurable statistical indices.

I don't think anybody can be a success who doesn't like what they do. [But it's] no job if it has no challenge; there's nothing to it if there are no problems. The essential thing is liking what you're doing.

The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

In business, there’s such a thing as an invaluable person, but no such thing as an indispensable one.

At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.

After 40, one's face begins to tell more than one's tongue.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke.

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

If you say what you think don't expect to hear only what you like.

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

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

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

I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.

Occasionally indulging in a do-nothing day is more than worth the price.

How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.

In the long run, a short cut seldom is.

Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do.

The top people of the biggest companies are, surprisingly, often the nicest ones in their company I'm not sure, though, if they got there because they were good guys or that they're now good guys because they can afford to be.

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

Nothing is sometimes the right thing to say.

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.

Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose.

SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism-- and there are those who think they are one and the same.

All too often we say of a man doing a good job that he is indispensable. A flattering canard, as so many disillusioned and retired and fired have discovered when the world seems to keep on turning without them. In business, a man can come nearest to indispensability by being dispensable in his current job. How can a man move up to new responsibilities if he is the only one able to handle his present tasks? It matters not how small or large the job you now have, if you have trained no one to do it as well, you're not available; you've made your promotion difficult if not impossible.

Where you're from only matters in relation to where you are.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

To measure the man, measure his heart.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

It's always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.

Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too.

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

It's great to arrive, but the trip's most always most of the fun.

Presence is more than just being there.

How to fail: Try too hard.

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

One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.

The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.

Noone's a leader if there are no followers.

Once you've given advice to someone, you're obligated.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

A little reciprocity goes a long way.

The art of conversation lies in listening.

There's no way to move without making waves.

There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.

Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad.

Victory is sweetest when you've know defeat. Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. You pay for everything, even including speaking your mind (with or without one). Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.

The hardest work of all - doing nothing.

When you don't want something enough to make the effort, making an effort is a waste.

I was loaded with sheer ability, spelled i-n-h-e-r-i-t-a-n-c-e.

How to succeed? Try hard enough.

When the joy of the job's gone, when it's no fun trying anymore, quit before you're fired.

There are a handful of companies who understand all successful business operations come down to three basic principles; People---Product---Profit. Without top people, you cannot do much with the other two.

Unconsciously I had discovered the commentator's secret weapon-that so long as you can wield words, it isn't necessary to know what you're talking about.

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.

As you get older, don't slow down. Speed up. There's less time left!

No one ever dies wishing they'd spent more time at the office.

Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who don't reach desired destinations.

When young, you're shocked by the number of people who turn out to have feet of clay. Older, you're surprised by the number of people who don't.

A winner must first know what losing's like.

Most of us are better when things go better.

The day nothing turns you on - you're dead. No matter how many more years you go on breathing.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

Old age is not for sissies.

We'd all like to be taken for what we'd like to be.

There are more fakers in business than in jail.

The difference between towering and cowering is totally a matter of inner posture.

Age isn't important until you run out of it.