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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One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.
How to succeed: Try hard enough.How to fail: Try too hard.
Their steaks are often good, but the lobsters-with claws the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's forearms-are as glazed and tough as most of the customers.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Executives who get there and stay suggest solutions when they present the problems.
To measure the man, measure his heart.
If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
As you get older there shouldn't be anything you won't try. The payoff is that you open up whole new avenues that are fun. It's a misinterpretation of life to live it only in preparation for the next one. To subordinate the one you've got to an indefinite next round is foolish. It's a waste of this life not to live this life. What's next is anybody's guess.
It's the less bright students who make teachers teach better.
People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous.
Thinkers perish, thoughts don't.
Living and dreaming are two different things - but you can't do one without the other.