Quotes by Forbes, Malcolm S.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

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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.

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

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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.

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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

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When you cease to dream you cease to live.

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

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

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People who never get carried away should be.

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

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What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

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Presence is more than just being there.

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

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

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

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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.

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

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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

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

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

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

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

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

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

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

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

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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

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The best vision is insight.

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If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

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