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Quotes from Malcolm Forbes

Those carried away by power are soon carried away.
~ Malcolm Forbes
The best buy by way of management is brains-at any price.
~ Malcolm Forbes
There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.
~ Malcolm Forbes
The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do.
~ Malcolm Forbes
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
~ Malcolm Forbes
One of the ceaseless wonders of the world: The power of a smile.
~ Malcolm Forbes
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.
~ Malcolm Forbes
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Living and dreaming are two different things - but you can't do one without the other.
~ Malcolm Forbes
It's a very short trip. While alive, live.
~ Malcolm Forbes
If the shoe fits you're lucky.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Things there are no solution to: Inflation, bureaucracy & dandruff.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
~ Malcolm Forbes
The difference between towering and cowering is totally a matter of inner posture.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Failure is success if we learn from it.
~ Malcolm Forbes
The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Noone's a leader if there are no followers.
~ Malcolm Forbes
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.
~ Malcolm Forbes
It's the less bright students who make teachers teach better.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
~ Malcolm Forbes