Malcolm Forbes Quotes - Page 8

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• Can you understand why the Congress, most states and most cities refuse to pass legislation requiring the registration and licensing of any and all guns? For the life of me, I can't. We must register our cars and be licensed to drive. In many places we must get licenses for dogs and even bicycles. Being required to register firearms and show the competence and capacity to handle them hardly seems unreasonable, hardly seems an infringement of freedom. What is it that blocks such legislation? Why do they block it? How are they able to block it?

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  Dog, Block, Gun

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• Since we had nothing to do with our arrival and usually are not consulted about our departure, what makes so many of us think we're entitled to so much while we're here?

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  Thinking, Departure, Arrivals

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• For some of us it seems like yesterday when Ike was in the White House, the U.S. Senate censured Joe McCarthy, and the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in public school was unconstitutional.

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  School, White, Yesterday

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• Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?

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  Feelings, Arrogance, Justified

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• After the fact, our hearts always go out to the fallen Goliaths. Yet we invariably root for their Davids. Until they're winners.

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  Heart, Winning, Roots

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• A Tax Loophole: A deduction that the other guy gets.

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  Guy, Modern Life, Taxes

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• Clout is something some seem to have-until they try exercising it.

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  Exercise, Power, Trying

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• The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks around 'em risk wringing.

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  Real, Rocks, Risk

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• Security isn't securities. It's knowing that someone cares whether you are or cease to be.

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  Knowing, Care, Security

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• Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office.... I worked in the mail cage, where envelopes were slit and subscription payments extracted. Dad used to come pounding down the office aisle and pause long enough to ask, How much today? Inevitably the answer was inadequate-except once. That day the controller said excitedly, Mr. Forbes, the ledger shows a slight profit this month! ... My father turned to him and said, Young man, I don't give a damn what your books show. Do we have any money in the bank?

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  Summer, Dad, Father

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• It's never too late to learn.

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  Business, Words Of Wisdom, Too Late

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• As you get older there shouldn't be anything you won't try. The payoff is that you open up whole new avenues that are fun. It's a misinterpretation of life to live it only in preparation for the next one. To subordinate the one you've got to an indefinite next round is foolish. It's a waste of this life not to live this life. What's next is anybody's guess.

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  Fun, Preparation, Trying

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• Speculator: One who bought stocks that went down.

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  Business, Speculators, Own Business

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• It is never too late to learn.

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  Too Late, Never Too Late, Late

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• Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.

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  War, Mind, Way

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• If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.

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  Inspirational, Mirrors, Perfection

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• It doesn't take much of a rule to measure a mean man.

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  Anger, Mean, Men

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• For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more visible statement than the president's in the annual report. Ditto interiors, particularly of offices and sometimes, dramatically, in plants. For solvent businesses, support of community cultural undertakings in music, drama, dance creates great goodwill. Also, the existence of such activities is often important to the executives and their families that companies want to keep or attract to keep.

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  Art, Drama, Office

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• When you catch what you're after, it's gone.

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  Gone

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• If you don't know what you want to do, it's harder to do it.

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  Want, Sunscreen, Harder

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• Economists' unanimity that bad business is ahead is the most reassuring news possible. It's very unlikely that this will be the one time they're right.

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  Business, News, Reassuring

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• Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes.

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  Saying No, Hopeless, Should

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• It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

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  Fun, Conclusion, Justify

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• What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at?

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  Sports, Want, Advertising

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• A hug's a happy thing while a shrug's so often destructive.

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  Happiness, Hug, Happy Things

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