1919-1990, American Publisher, Businessman
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Malcolm S. Forbes – [Ability]
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
Malcolm S. Forbes – [Right and Rightness]
By the time we've made it, we've had it.
Malcolm S. Forbes – [Health]
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
Malcolm S. Forbes – [Diversity]
Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
Malcolm S. Forbes – [Politicians and Politics]
Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
Malcolm S. Forbes – [Service]
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm S. Forbes – [Adversity]
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 – [Politicians and Politics]
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 – [Delegation]
If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
Malcolm S. Forbes – [Expectation]
If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.
Malcolm S. Forbes – [Work]
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
Malcolm S. Forbes – [Risk]
It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
Malcolm S. Forbes – [Problems]
Let your children go if you want to keep them.
Malcolm S. Forbes – [Parents and Parenting]
Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
Malcolm S. Forbes – [Business]
Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
Malcolm S. Forbes – [Management]
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.
Malcolm S. Forbes – [Importance]
People who never get carried away should be.
Malcolm S. Forbes – [Enthusiasm]
Presence is more than just being there.
Malcolm S. Forbes – [Focus]
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
Malcolm S. Forbes – [Success]