Quotes from Malcolm Forbes

If you say what you think don't expect to hear only what you like.

The best vision is insight.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who don't reach desired destinations.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

The richest person in the world - in fact all the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library.

It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

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.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

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.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Too many people overvalue what they are, and undervalue what they are not.

You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them.

The art of conversation lies in listening