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Quotes from Malcolm Forbes

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Acceptance and Work If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.
~ Malcolm Forbes
To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.
~ Malcolm Forbes
People who never get carried away should be.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.
~ Malcolm Forbes
What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at?
~ Malcolm Forbes
Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must return from Washington after 24 months.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
~ Malcolm Forbes
How to succeed: try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.
~ Malcolm Forbes
He who hesitates is sometimes wise.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Once in a while there's wisdom in recognizing that the Boss is.
~ Malcolm Forbes
The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.
~ Malcolm Forbes
No one ever dies wishing they'd spent more time at the office.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Age isn't important until you run out of it.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.
~ Malcolm Forbes
The hardest work of all - doing nothing.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Working at what you enjoy is far more important than what you're working at.
~ Malcolm Forbes
When those with ability at their job get to thinking they can't be done without, they're already on their way out.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Old age is not for sissies.
~ Malcolm Forbes
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.
~ Malcolm Forbes
There are more fakers in business than in jail.
~ Malcolm Forbes