Top 180 Malcolm S. Forbes Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Pay your people the least possible and you’ll get from them the same.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

52. “If you can read and don’t, you’re dumb.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

53. “A little reciprocity goes a long way.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

54. “Enlightening editorial writers is even more difficult than educating educators.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

55. “Listening to advice often accomplishes far more than heeding it.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

56. “The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

57. “Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

58. “All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn’t be a dull boy.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

59. “People who never get carried away should be.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

60. “The more sympathy you give, the less you need.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

61. “The day nothing turns you on – you’re dead. No matter how many more years you go on breathing.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

62. “Clout is something some seem to have-until they try exercising it.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

63. “More often than not, things and people are as they appear.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

64. “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.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

65. “Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

66. “The art of conversation lies in listening.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

67. “As you get older, don’t slow down. Speed up. There’s less time left!”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

68. “There are a handful of companies who understand all successful business operations come down to three basic principles; People – Product – Profit. Without top people, you cannot do much with the other two.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

69. “It’s more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

70. “If you say what you think don’t expect to hear only what you like.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

71. “SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism – and there are those who think they are one and the same.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

72. “If you expect nothing, you’re apt to be surprised. You’ll get it.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

73. “If you don’t watch your figure, you’ll have more figure to watch.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

74. “When profit is unshared, it’s less likely to grow greater.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

75. “It’s much more profitable to sell investing advice than to follow it.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

76. “When you don’t understand, it’s sometimes easier to look like you do.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

77. “Any marriage that survives a big wedding can probably survive.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

78. “Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

79. “People who stare deserve the looks they get.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

80. “The last thing you do the best is what you have the most joy doing.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

81. “There are more fakers in business than in jail.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

82. “Age isn’t important until you run out of it.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

83. “A lot of money doesn’t make anyone more often right. It just makes him harder to correct.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

84. “Old age is not for sissies.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

85. “Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they’re just uncovered anew.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

86. “Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they’re not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don’t have.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

87. “After 40, one’s face begins to tell more than one’s tongue.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

88. “Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

89. “I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

90. “If you have a job without aggravations, you don’t have a job.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

91. “How to fail: Try too hard.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

92. “Living and dreaming are two different things – but you can’t do one without the other.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

93. “If you don’t know what you want to do, it’s harder to do it.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

94. “I was loaded with sheer ability, spelled i-n-h-e-r-i-t-a-n-c-e.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

95. “Some days are for living. Others are for getting through.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

96. “It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

97. “Give naught, get same. Give much, get same.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

98. “When one seeks assurance, there’s none from those who respond, Now, don’t you worry about a thing. If you weren’t worried, you wouldn’t have asked. If you are concerned, it’s nice to know that those you query are, too. I’ll take a worrier any day over a platitudinous reassurer.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

99. “I don’t waste too much time philosophizing about wealth, I just recommend it to everyone.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

100. “Generous gestures yield the most when that isn’t their purpose.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes