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
Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
If you don't know what you want to do, it's harder to do it.
Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.
When you catch what you're after, it's gone.
The Palm is a joint for sadists to entertain masochists.
The top people of the biggest companies are, surprisingly, often the nicest ones in their company I'm not sure, though, if they got there because they were good guys or that they're now good guys because they can afford to be.
Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes.
When a fissure off the California coast started pumping and dumping oil on the nearby towns and beaches, everybody started dumping on Union Oil. Matters weren't helped one iota by a manufactured quotation attributed to Union's president, Fred Hartley, alleging his amazement at the publicity for the loss of a few birds.... Fred Hartley never said what the press reported, as the transcript and the Senate committee members definitely established. But I don't suppose the truth will ever catch up with the more colorful falsehood.
Looking the part helps get the chance to fill it. But if you fill the part, it matters not if you look it.
Old age is not for sissies.
It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who don't reach desired destinations.
A lot of money doesn't make anyone more often right. It just makes him harder to correct.