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
How to succeed: Try hard enough.How to fail: Try too hard.
The hardest time to tell: when to stop.
The hardest work of all - doing nothing.
If you don't know what you want to do, it's harder to do it.
A lot of money doesn't make anyone more often right. It just makes him harder to correct.
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.
Presence is more than just being there.
Victory is sweetest when you've know defeat. Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. You pay for everything, even including speaking your mind (with or without one). Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Men who never get carried away should be.
Executives who get there and stay suggest solutions when they present the problems.
Their steaks are often good, but the lobsters-with claws the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's forearms-are as glazed and tough as most of the customers.
If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.