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Malcolm Forbes Quotes


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

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

There's no way to move without making waves.

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

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

To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.

To measure the man, measure his heart.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
[Forgiveness]

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

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.

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.

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

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.


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