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
Malcolm Forbes quotes about
It is never too late to learn.
The hardest work of all - doing nothing.
SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism-- and there are those who think they are one and the same.
Trying to impress others does - usually in quite the opposite way.
It ticks me no end when people get ticked off at those of us who comment audibly and in print on events and problems. That's what we're paid for. Why clutter up your mind with a bunch of facts that might inhibit the solve-ability of us who must express an opinion? After all, all the world cries out for a solution to its problems, and we supply them right and left. Come to think of it, it's we who should be giving our deplorers and detractors the blast; because 99% of the time they don't do as we say.
Real writers-that is, capital W Writers-rarely make much money. Their biggest reward is the occasional reader's response.... Commentators-in-print voicing big fat opinions-you might call us small w writers-get considerably more feedback than Writers. The letters I personally find most flattering are not the very rare ones that speak well of my editorials, but the occasional reader who wants to know who writes them. I always happily assume the letter-writers is implying that the editorials are so good that I couldn't have written them myself.
Personal & Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter, though, the minifrauder succeeds in sowing illwill & ire.
Any marriage that survives a big wedding can probably survive.
After 40, one's face begins to tell more than one's tongue.
One thing that previous practice doesn't always make perfect: Marriage.
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
One cannot walk into an April day in a negative way. With spring, each man's plans and hopes result in new efforts, fresh actions. All of which has a mighty important bearing on the economy. There are those of us who think that the psychology of man, each and together, has more impact on markets, business, services and building and all the fabric of an economy than all the more measurable statistical indices.
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.
What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at?