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.

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

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.

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

The best vision is insight.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

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

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

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

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