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.

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

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

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

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

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

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

The best vision is insight.

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

Failure is success if we learn from it.

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

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