Malcolm Forbes Quotes
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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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There are a handful of companies who understand all successful business operations come down to three basic principles; People---Product---Profit. Without top people, you cannot do much with the other two.
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A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.
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One often reads about the art of conversation-how it's dying or what's needed to make it flourish, or how rare good ones are. But wouldn't you agree that the infinitely more valuable rara avis [rare bird] is a good listener.
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At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.
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Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.
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The best vision is insight.
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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.
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How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.
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Anticipating is more fun than recollecting.
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The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.
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It's a very short trip. While alive, live.
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If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.
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When the joy of the job's gone, when it's no fun trying anymore, quit before you're fired.
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Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose.
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Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better.
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What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at?
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Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too.
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He who hesitates is sometimes wise.
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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.
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If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
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Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.
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After the fact, our hearts always go out to the fallen Goliaths. Yet we invariably root for their Davids. Until they're winners.
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At today's prices for medicines, doctors and hospitals-if the latter are available at any price-only millionaires can afford to be hurt or sick and pay for it. Very few people want socialized medicine in the U.S. But pressure for it is going to appear with the same hurricane force as the demand for pollution control if the medicine men and hospital operators don't take soon some Draconian measures... At the present rate of doctor fees and hospital costs under Medicare and Medicaid plans [taxpayers] are shovelling in billions with nothing but escalation in sight.
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After 40, one's face begins to tell more than one's tongue.
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Presence is more than just being there.
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Thinkers perish, thoughts don't.
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The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.
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In business, there’s such a thing as an invaluable person, but no such thing as an indispensable one.
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A hug's a happy thing while a shrug's so often destructive.
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