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
When you don't want something enough to make the effort, making an effort is a waste.
What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at?
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
If you don't know what you want to do, it's harder to do it.
Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn't want to be.
Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must return from Washington after 24 months.
Let your children go if you want to keep them.
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.
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.