Malcolm Forbes Quotes - Page 6

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• One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Real, Values

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• 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

  Humorous, Office, Doubt

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• It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Business, Thinking, Ironic

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• Listening to advice often accomplishes far more than heeding it.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Advice, Listening, Accomplish

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• One often reads about the art of conversation-how it's dying or what's needed to make it flourish, or how rare good ones are. But wouldn't you agree that the infinitely more valuable rara avis [rare bird] is a good listener.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Art, Agreement, Bird

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• When you don't understand, it's sometimes easier to look like you do.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Understanding, Looks, Sometimes

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• Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they're just uncovered anew.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Meaningful, Discovery

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• Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn't want to be.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Men, Want

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• I haven't a clue about the biology or the psychology involved when a person dissolves into tears, but it is quite fascinating to note what turns them on. There are wives who can cascade over a late husband or a burned dinner, and equally pour tears of joy over a new bonnet or a renovated bathroom.... A while ago I took a ship back from Europe. Amid the tumbling confetti ... I found myself misty-eyed watching a young lady waving a tearful farewell to her boyfriend on the dock. I couldn't figure out if I was crying at her plight, or in delight that he wasn't coming along with us.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Husband, Farewell, Europe

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• . . . the most difficult thing asked by our young is not our earnings but our ears.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Ears, Earning, Young

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• You can't fool the mirror-what you see is what you are.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Mirrors, Fool, Appearance

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• Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Half, Compliment, Virtue

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• If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Food, Watches, Figures

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• Some of the biggest bores I've ever known are men who have been highly successful in business, particularly self-made heads of big companies. Before the first olive has settled into the first martini, they pour the stories of their lives into the nearest and sometimes the remotest ears capturable.... These men have indeed paid the price of success. To rise to the top of a big company often takes a totality of effort, concentration and dedication. Others, too, have to pay part of the price. Wife and children are out of mind even when in sight.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Children, Successful, Men

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• The hardest time to tell: when to stop.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Action, Hardest Times, Hardest

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• 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

  Motivational, Business, Work

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• Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Children, Kids, Discipline

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• At today's prices for medicines, doctors and hospitals-if the latter are available at any price-only millionaires can afford to be hurt or sick and pay for it. Very few people want socialized medicine in the U.S. But pressure for it is going to appear with the same hurricane force as the demand for pollution control if the medicine men and hospital operators don't take soon some Draconian measures... At the present rate of doctor fees and hospital costs under Medicare and Medicaid plans [taxpayers] are shovelling in billions with nothing but escalation in sight.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Hurt, Men, Doctors

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• Looking the part helps get the chance to fill it. But if you fill the part, it matters not if you look it.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Looks, Matter, Helping

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• A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Views, Boredom, Enlightened

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• Advice: It's more fun to give than to receive.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Fun, Giving, Advice

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• Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Book, Years, Mind

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

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Time, Leader

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• Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Memories, Recollection, Selective

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• None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Hands, Giving, Joy

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