Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
Malcolm Forbes

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

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

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

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
Malcolm Forbes

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes

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

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
Malcolm Forbes

Failure is success if we learn from it.
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


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

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

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

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

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

It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
Malcolm Forbes

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

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

Let your children go if you want to keep them.
Malcolm Forbes

Men who never get carried away should be.
Malcolm Forbes