At today's prices for medicines, doctors and hospitals-if the latter are available at any price-only millionaires can afford to be hurt or sick and pay for it. Very few people want socialized medicine in the U.S. But pressure for it… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
It is a damned sight easier to start wars than to end them. This truth has been stated for as long and as often as it has been ignored. High time and thank God, we are at least moving toward… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Can you understand why the Congress, most states and most cities refuse to pass legislation requiring the registration and licensing of any and all… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share
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… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share
Why, just a couple of economic seasons ago, was idle cash considered an indication of bad management or lazy management? Because it meant that… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share
Real writers-that is, capital W Writers-rarely make much money. Their biggest reward is the occasional reader's response… Commentators-in-print voicing big fat opinions-you might call… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share
Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better. Knowing… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share
It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share
Security isn't securities. It's knowing that someone cares whether you are or cease to be. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share
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 Forbes Copy Share
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share
Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share
. . . the most difficult thing asked by our young is not our earnings but our ears. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share
