Malcolm Forbes
Malcolm Forbes
Malcolm Stevenson Forbeswas an American entrepreneur most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, founded by his father B. C. Forbes. He was known as an avid promoter of capitalism and free market trade, and for an extravagant lifestyle, spending on parties, travel, and his collection of homes, yachts, aircraft, art, motorcycles, and Fabergé eggs...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth19 August 1919
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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Give naught, get same. Give much, get same.
The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. You can measure the awareness, the breadth and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be.
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.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
The best vision is insight.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.
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.
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
One of the ceaseless wonders of the world: The power of a smile.
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.