Quotes by Malcolm Forbes

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

— Malcolm Forbes

Wisdom

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

— Malcolm Forbes

Education

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

— Malcolm Forbes

Happiness

Failure is success if we learn from it.

— Malcolm Forbes

Success

Presence is more than just being there.

— Malcolm Forbes

Wisdom

The best vision is insight.

— Malcolm Forbes

Wisdom

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

— Malcolm Forbes

Education

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

— Malcolm Forbes

Wisdom

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

— Malcolm Forbes

Happiness

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

— Malcolm Forbes

Wisdom

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

— Malcolm Forbes

Wisdom

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

— Malcolm Forbes

Wisdom

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 Forbes

Wisdom

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

— Malcolm Forbes

Hope

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 Forbes

Hope

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

— Malcolm Forbes

Wisdom

It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

— Malcolm Forbes

Wisdom

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 Forbes

Wisdom

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

— Malcolm Forbes

Wisdom

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

— Malcolm Forbes

Wisdom

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

— Malcolm Forbes

Wisdom

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

— Malcolm Forbes

Happiness

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

— Malcolm Forbes

Wisdom

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

— Malcolm Forbes

Success