Malcolm S. Forbes

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

— Malcolm S. Forbes

Failure is success if we learn from it.

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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.

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. 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 S. Forbes

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

— Malcolm S. Forbes

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

People who never get carried away should be.

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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.

— Malcolm S. Forbes

Presence is more than just being there.

— Malcolm S. Forbes

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. 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 S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

— Malcolm S. Forbes

The best vision is insight.

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes