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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It's a very short trip. While alive, live.
Nothing is sometimes the right thing to say.
One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing.
The difference between towering and cowering is totally a matter of inner posture.
I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.
No one ever dies wishing they'd spent more time at the office.
I don't waste too much time philosophizing about wealth, I just recommend it to everyone.
Some of the biggest bores I've ever known are men who have been highly successful in business, particularly self-made heads of big companies. Before the first olive has settled into the first martini, they pour the stories of their lives into the nearest and sometimes the remotest ears capturable.... These men have indeed paid the price of success. To rise to the top of a big company often takes a totality of effort, concentration and dedication. Others, too, have to pay part of the price. Wife and children are out of mind even when in sight....
Accepting blame when it's not really due sometimes makes the point better.
When one seeks assurance, there's none from those who respond, Now, don't you worry about a thing. If you weren't worried, you wouldn't have asked. If you are concerned, it's nice to know that those you query are, too. I'll take a worrier any day over a platitudinous reassurer.
Trying to impress others does - usually in quite the opposite way.
How to get taken: Spend most of your time making sure you're not.
When you don't want something enough to make the effort, making an effort is a waste.
If I owned any of these Hot New Issues that have doubled, tripled, quintupled or umptupled within days and in some cases hours after they were issued, I most certainly would grab my fabulous windfall, thank my lucky stars and invest the money. It's utter nonsense to think any newly issued stock is really worth two, ten or 20 times the [offering] price.... A management so stupid as to sell shares [cheap], and an underwriter so obtuse as not to discern the real value, together would provide reason enough for a sensible man to get rid of his shares.