Malcolm Forbes
Malcolm Forbes
Malcolm Stevenson Forbeswas an American entrepreneur most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, founded by his father B. C. Forbes. He was known as an avid promoter of capitalism and free market trade, and for an extravagant lifestyle, spending on parties, travel, and his collection of homes, yachts, aircraft, art, motorcycles, and Fabergé eggs...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth19 August 1919
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Malcolm Forbes quotes about
If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch.
Why, just a couple of economic seasons ago, was idle cash considered an indication of bad management or lazy management? Because it meant that management didn't have this money out at work ... Now look. Presto! A new fashion! Cash is back in! Denigrating liquidity has dropped quicker than hemlines. A management is now saluted if it has some cash, some liquidity, doesn't have to go to the money market at huge interest rates to get the wherewithal to keep going and growing. Along with Ben Franklin, my father and your father would understand and applaud this new economic fashion ....
All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn't be a dull boy.
Those who talk loudly are rarely listened to.
Hoarding one's hurts hurts only the hoarder.
How to get taken: Spend most of your time making sure you're not.
All too often we say of a man doing a good job that he is indispensable. A flattering canard, as so many disillusioned and retired and fired have discovered when the world seems to keep on turning without them. In business, a man can come nearest to indispensability by being dispensable in his current job. How can a man move up to new responsibilities if he is the only one able to handle his present tasks? It matters not how small or large the job you now have, if you have trained no one to do it as well, you're not available; you've made your promotion difficult if not impossible.
Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.
Give naught, get same. Give much, get same.
Advice: It's more fun to give than to receive.
A winner must first know what losing's like.
It doesn't take much of a rule to measure a mean man.
If you can read and don't, you're dumb.
Accepting blame when it's not really due sometimes makes the point better.