Top 25 Malcolm Forbes Quotes

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

Pay your people the least possible and you‘ll get from them the same.

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

It’s more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

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

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

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

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

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

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Presence is more than just being there.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

If you expect nothing, you’re apt to be surprised. You’ll get it.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

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.

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

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

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

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.

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don’t have a job.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

To measure the man, measure his heart.

The best vision is insight.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he’s hired to do.