Top 180 Malcolm S. Forbes Quotes (2024 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

4. “The best vision is insight.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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6. “It’s never too late to learn.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

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

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

40. “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

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

50. “Pay your people the least possible and you’ll get from them the same.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes