Malcolm Forbes

Thinkers perish, thoughts don't.

— Malcolm Forbes

There are more fakers in business than in jail.

— Malcolm Forbes

Nothing is sometimes the right thing to say.

— Malcolm Forbes

Men who never get carried away should be.

— Malcolm Forbes

People who stare deserve the looks they get.

— Malcolm Forbes

How to fail: Try too hard.

— Malcolm Forbes

Hoarding one's hurts hurts only the hoarder.

— Malcolm Forbes

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

— Malcolm Forbes

You can't fool the mirror-what you see is what you are.

— Malcolm Forbes

I don't waste too much time philosophizing about wealth, I just recommend it to everyone.

— Malcolm Forbes

A big cigar in a young face requires the best of both.

— Malcolm Forbes

If you don't know what you want to do, it's harder to do it.

— Malcolm Forbes

Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.

— Malcolm Forbes

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

— Malcolm Forbes

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

— Malcolm Forbes

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

— Malcolm Forbes

When young, you're shocked by the number of people who turn out to have feet of clay. Older, you're surprised by the…

— Malcolm Forbes

Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they…

— Malcolm Forbes

On New York's Palm restaurant: Their steaks are often good, but the lobsters-with claws the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's forearms-are as glazed…

— Malcolm Forbes

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

— Malcolm Forbes

Economists' unanimity that bad business is ahead is the most reassuring news possible. It's very unlikely that this will be the one…

— Malcolm Forbes

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find…

— Malcolm Forbes

Since we had nothing to do with our arrival and usually are not consulted about our departure, what makes so many of…

— Malcolm Forbes

Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must…

— Malcolm Forbes

For some of us it seems like yesterday when Ike was in the White House, the U.S. Senate censured Joe McCarthy, and…

— Malcolm Forbes

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

— Malcolm Forbes

One cannot walk into an April day in a negative way. With spring, each man's plans and hopes result in new efforts,…

— Malcolm Forbes

Victory is sweetest when you've know defeat. Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. You pay for everything, even…

— Malcolm 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…

— Malcolm Forbes

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…

— Malcolm Forbes

Speaking of birthdays, our firstborn [recently turned 2]. As parents sometimes fondly do, we reminisced a bit about his early days on…

— Malcolm Forbes

To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have…

— Malcolm Forbes

I hope a start at getting some oil out of the enormous Alaska field isn't indefinitely mired in a bureaucratic morass as…

— Malcolm Forbes

Some of the biggest bores I've ever known are men who have been highly successful in business, particularly self-made heads of big…

— Malcolm Forbes

Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office… I worked in…

— Malcolm Forbes

Why, just a couple of economic seasons ago, was idle cash considered an indication of bad management or lazy management? Because it…

— Malcolm Forbes

It is a damned sight easier to start wars than to end them. This truth has been stated for as long and…

— Malcolm Forbes

Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? Will federal and state laws be enacted with effective…

— Malcolm Forbes

The hardest time to tell: when to stop.

— Malcolm Forbes

Advice: It's more fun to give than to receive.

— Malcolm Forbes