Malcolm Forbes Quotes
Was the publisher of Forbes magazine.
(1919 - 1990)
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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
[Ability]
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Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
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By the time we've made it, we've had it.
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Contrary to the cliché, genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it.
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Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
[Education]
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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
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Executives who get there and stay suggest solutions when they present the problems.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
[Success]
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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.
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How to succeed: try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.
[Success]
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If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
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If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
[Positive]
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If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
[Acceptance]
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
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If you never budge, don't expect a push.
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If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.
[Perfection]
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