Top 180 Malcolm S. Forbes Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

152. “It doesn’t take much of a rule to measure a mean man.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

153. “Those carried away by power are soon carried away.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

154. “When you don’t want something enough to make the effort, making an effort is a waste.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

155. “An inadequate chief executive officer’s time at the top is always too long no matter how short.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

156. “When what we are is what we want to be, that’s happiness.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

157. “After the fact, our hearts always go out to the fallen Goliaths. Yet we invariably root for their Davids. Until they’re winners.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

158. “I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

159. “Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

160. “Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don’t understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn’t a business.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

161. “Those who talk loudly are rarely listened to.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

162. “Too few accomplish twice as much as too many.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

163. “You have to come up in the world before it’s worthwhile for those worth less to put you down.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

164. “Looking the part helps get the chance to fill it. But if you fill the part, it matters not if you look it.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

165. “People who can’t see without glasses should wear them.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

166. “When young, you’re shocked by the number of people who turn out to have feet of clay. Older, you’re surprised by the number of people who don’t.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

167. “Daydreams are doable. The turn-on is not in scale, spectacle, or cost. It’s in the doing. Anything you haven’t done is an adventure. Wanting to is the principal requirement. If you can do and want to, don’t not. In short, while alive, live.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

168. “He who hesitates is sometimes wise.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

169. “Socialism will be here the day we share our profits to the degree we share our failures.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

170. “A big cigar in a young face requires the best of both.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

171. “Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

172. “The top people of the biggest companies are, surprisingly, often the nicest ones in their company I’m not sure, though, if they got there because they were good guys or that they’re now good guys because they can afford to be.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

173. “He who says he never needs help, most does.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

174. “Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

175. “The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks around ’em risk wringing.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

176. “To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

177. “When those with ability at their job get to thinking they can’t be done without, they’re already on their way out.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

178. “Most of us are better when things go better.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

179. “At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

180. “None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

181. “You’re fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

182. “We’d all like to be taken for what we’d like to be.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

183. “What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in?”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

184. “How would you know what happy is if you’ve never been otherwise.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

185. “The ultimate high: A man’s abilities equaling his opinion of’em.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

186. “A hug’s a happy thing while a shrug’s so often destructive.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

187. “Working at what you enjoy is far more important than what you’re working at.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

188. “It’s the less bright students who make teachers teach better.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

189. “The Palm is a joint for sadists to entertain masochists.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes