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Malcolm Forbes [1917-1990] American
Rank: 101
Publisher, Entrepreneur


Malcolm Stevenson Forbes was an American entrepreneur most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, founded by his father B. C. Forbes. 

Art, Best, Business, Dreams, Education, Failure, Happiness, History, Hope, Independence, Politics, Success, Sympathy, Time

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Failure is success if we learn from it. Failure, Success
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Education
102
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together. Art, Independence
103
It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
104
When you cease to dream you cease to live. Dreams
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Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
106
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
107
It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
108
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. Business, Politics
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If you never budge, don't expect a push.
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The best vision is insight. Best
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Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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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.
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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness. Happiness
115
If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
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Presence is more than just being there.
117
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. History
119
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. Hope
120
If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
121
Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
122
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
123
By the time we've made it, we've had it. Time
124
Men who never get carried away should be.
125
The more sympathy you give, the less you need. Sympathy
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
201
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
202
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.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
204
People who never get carried away should be.
205
Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
206
Let your children go if you want to keep them.
207
Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
208
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
209
Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
210
To measure the man, measure his heart.
211
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
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