Quotes & anectdotes from
the wise,
the foolish,
the courageous &
the drunk

Malcolm Forbes Businessperson

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Aug 19, 1919
  • Died: Feb 24, 1990

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes was publisher of Forbes magazine, founded by his father B. C. Forbes. He was known as a promoter of capitalism and for extravagant spending on parties, travel, and his collection of homes, yachts, aircraft, art and Fabergé eggs.

The best vision is insight.

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

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

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

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

Failure is success if we learn from it.

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

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

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

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

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