Top 180 Malcolm S. Forbes Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “If you can read and don’t, you’re dumb.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

54. “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

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— 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. “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

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

70. “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

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

83. “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

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

85. “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

86. “Old age is not for sissies.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

97. “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

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

100. “People who say that money isn’t the most important thing in the world are usually broke.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes