Malcolm Forbes Quotes - Page 7

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• Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers).

  Malcolm Forbes

  Power, Authority

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• There's one post-Christmas chore I love-writing thank-you letters.... Lots of companies for many reasonable reasons, I guess, have a policy against sending even Christmas cards, never mind things, at Christmastime. But our clan gets a big kick out of opening the Warner-Lambert box containing an assortment of their wares; we argue over which of the boys is to get the Union Oil Co. necktie [and] all the holiday long we play the marvelous Christmas music sent by Goodyear.... None of these things means that Forbes or Forbeses have been had. But all of us like being thought of.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Writing, Holiday, Mean

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• Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better. Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time. Always listen to a man when he describes the faults of others. Often times, most times, he's describing his own, revealing himself.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Adversity, Men, Knowing

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• He who hesitates is sometimes wise.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Wise, Wisdom, Sometimes

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• A big cigar in a young face requires the best of both.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Faces, Cigar, Bigs

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• It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Party, Thinking, Deals

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• Anticipating is more fun than recollecting.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Fun

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• Socialism will be here the day we share our profits to the degree we share our failures.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Degrees, Socialism, Share

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• Accepting blame when it's not really due sometimes makes the point better.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Blame, Sometimes, Accepting

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• If you don't know, it's not always necessary to admit it.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Knowledge, Knows, Ifs

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• It is a damned sight easier to start wars than to end them. This truth has been stated for as long and as often as it has been ignored. High time and thank God, we are at least moving toward de-escalation in Vietnam. The road to extrication will be long, painful, bitter. But it must be trod. We are so bogged down in Vietnam that we cannot respond effectively anywhere else in the world to a military power play except through atomic bombardment.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Military, War, Moving

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• It's the less bright students who make teachers teach better.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Teacher, Students, Teach

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• The ultimate high: A man's abilities equaling his opinion of'em.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Men, Ems, Opinion

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• Those carried away by power are soon carried away.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Power, Carried Away

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• When profit is unshared, it's less likely to grow greater.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Profit, Grows, Greater

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• If you can read and don't, you're dumb.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Reading, Dumb, Ifs

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• Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

  Malcolm Forbes

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• An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Long, Matter, Chief Executives

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• If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Attitude, Reality

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• People who never get carried away should be.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Sports, Enthusiasm For Life, People

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• I think legislative assaults on motorcyclists are totally emotionally, disproportionate and totally unfair....they're instigated and implemented by people who know nothing about motorcycling, but have a prejudice. It's easy to curb the freedoms of others when you see no immediate impact on your own.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Thinking, Impact, People

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• Speaking of birthdays, our firstborn [recently turned 2]. As parents sometimes fondly do, we reminisced a bit about his early days on earth-the excitement, the wonder, the fears when we brought him home. His every squeak or squawk we were sure heralded some terrible crisis; I tested the warmth of formulas from dusk to dawn, it seemed. We were so germ-conscious my wife even sterilized the skin of the oranges before squeezing them. How firstborns ever survive their parents' attentions is beyond me. However, they do, and he did, and, in spite of our efforts, he turned out to be quite a good guy.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Children, Home, Orange

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• Once in a while there's wisdom in recognizing that the Boss is.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Wisdom, Boss, Recognizing

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• A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Men

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• To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned.... They may just have something there.... If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can't use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Marriage, Divorce, Thinking

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