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.

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

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

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

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

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

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

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

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

The best vision is insight.

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

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

Failure is success if we learn from it.