Top 180 Malcolm S. Forbes Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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2. “Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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3. “Failure is success if we learn from it.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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4. “The best vision is insight.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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5. “It’s never too late to learn.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

6. “When you cease to dream you cease to live.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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7. “The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

8. “Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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9. “Presence is more than just being there.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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10. “The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

11. “How to succeed? Try hard enough.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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12. “Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

13. “Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

14. “The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

15. “Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

16. “Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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17. “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

18. “No one ever dies wishing they’d spent more time at the office.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

19. “Occasionally indulging in a do-nothing day is more than worth the price.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

20. “The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

21. “It’s so much easier to suggest solutions when you don’t know too much about the problem.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

22. “The smart ones ask when they don’t know. And, sometimes, when they do.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

23. “Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

24. “I think the foremost quality – there’s no success without it – is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there’s no success if you don’t do well what you’re working at.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

25. “The hardest work of all – doing nothing.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

26. “Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

27. “Nothing is sometimes the right thing to say.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

28. “It’s a very short trip. While alive, live.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

29. “Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he’s hired to do.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

30. “If you’ve had a good time playing the game, you’re a winner even if you lose.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

31. “Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

32. “One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

33. “Trying to impress others does – usually in quite the opposite way.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

34. “Money isn’t everything as long as you have enough.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

35. “When it’s your own fault, things hurt worse than when someone else is to blame.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

36. “What’s an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn’t know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn’t admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn’t really know how much.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

37. “Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

38. “To measure the man, measure his heart.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

39. “Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

40. “Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

41. “A winner must first know what losing’s like.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

42. “Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

43. “Hoarding one’s hurts hurts only the hoarder.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

44. “Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn’t want to be.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

45. “Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

46. “There is never enough time, unless you’re serving it.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

47. “When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

48. “One of the ceaseless wonders of the world: The power of a smile.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

49. “Let your children go if you want to keep them.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

50. “One’s real worth is never a quantifiable thing.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes