Malcolm Forbes Quotes - Page 9

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• Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with forecasts that change more frequently than white-collar, workers do shirts. What Lies Ahead is the usual title. What Lies would often be more appropriate. If women's hemlines changed as rapidly as an economist's forecasts, the fashion people and the textile industry would be more profitable than any other. In fact, if all the country's economists were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.

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  Country, Fashion, Lying

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• Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must return from Washington after 24 months.

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  Education, Want, Requirements

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• When a fissure off the California coast started pumping and dumping oil on the nearby towns and beaches, everybody started dumping on Union Oil. Matters weren't helped one iota by a manufactured quotation attributed to Union's president, Fred Hartley, alleging his amazement at the publicity for the loss of a few birds.... Fred Hartley never said what the press reported, as the transcript and the Senate committee members definitely established. But I don't suppose the truth will ever catch up with the more colorful falsehood.

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  Beach, Nature, Loss

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• Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? Will federal and state laws be enacted with effective enforcement clauses? Will people be concerned long enough to pay the bill through higher prices? Will towns tole lost jobs when it proves too costly to clean obsolete plants?... I think so, but it sure won't be as easy as the present outcry and political oratory suggest. The answers to preserving a livable environment are not all simple, and some of the nuts now pushing simplistic cure-alls won't help bring about any lasting solutions.

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  Nature, Jobs, Thinking

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• I hope a start at getting some oil out of the enormous Alaska field isn't indefinitely mired in a bureaucratic morass as a result of our national concern for the ecology. This concern must not be so misguided, misdirected, misused that it serves to stop economic growth, to bankrupt companies, to stifle new development, new jobs, new horizons. In fighting new pollution and stemming present pollution, exciting, sometimes costly means and methods exist and others will evolve. But blanket legislative naysaying to expanding power and energy sources is stupid, self-defeating.

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  Nature, Jobs, Stupid

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• Trying to impress others does - usually in quite the opposite way.

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  Opposites, Trying, Doe

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• If the shoe fits you're lucky.

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  Shoes, Lucky, Modern Life

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• What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in?

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  Home, Office, Calling

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• When those with ability at their job get to thinking they can't be done without, they're already on their way out.

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  Jobs, Work, Thinking

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• I don't waste too much time philosophizing about wealth, I just recommend it to everyone.

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  Too Much, Waste, Wealth

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• Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

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  Inspiration, Years, Fiction

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• If you do not know what you're doing stacked on his desk, a dozen colleagues Initially sticks with a large number of papers and pass them. In case of doubt, the way in.

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  Numbers, Doubt, Paper

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• The Palm is a joint for sadists to entertain masochists.

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  Joints, Palms

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• When it's your own fault, things hurt worse than when someone else is to blame.

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  Hurt, Faults, Blame

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• On New York's Palm restaurant: Their steaks are often good, but the
  lobsters-with claws the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's forearms-are as glazed and tough as most of the customers.

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  New York, Lobster, Size

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• A gun in the hand is worth any number being tested.

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  Peace, War, Gun

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• If I owned any of these Hot New Issues that have doubled, tripled, quintupled or umptupled within days and in some cases hours after they were issued, I most certainly would grab my fabulous windfall, thank my lucky stars and invest the money. It's utter nonsense to think any newly issued stock is really worth two, ten or 20 times the [offering] price.... A management so stupid as to sell shares [cheap], and an underwriter so obtuse as not to discern the real value, together would provide reason enough for a sensible man to get rid of his shares.

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  Stars, Real, Stupid

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• How to get taken: Spend most of your time making sure you're not.

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  Taken

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• When one seeks assurance, there's none from those who respond, Now, don't you worry about a thing. If you weren't worried, you wouldn't have asked. If you are concerned, it's nice to know that those you query are, too. I'll take a worrier any day over a platitudinous reassurer.

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  Nice, Worry, Worried

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• If you want understanding try giving some.

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  Giving, Understanding, Trying

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• You have to come up in the world before it's worthwhile for those worth less to put you down.

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  Success, World, Come Up

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• Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.

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  Soul, Essentials, Fuel

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• Why, just a couple of economic seasons ago, was idle cash considered an indication of bad management or lazy management? Because it meant that management didn't have this money out at work ... Now look. Presto! A new fashion! Cash is back in! Denigrating liquidity has dropped quicker than hemlines. A management is now saluted if it has some cash, some liquidity, doesn't have to go to the money market at huge interest rates to get the wherewithal to keep going and growing. Along with Ben Franklin, my father and your father would understand and applaud this new economic fashion.

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  Fashion, Money, Couple

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• How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won't be room for us.

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  Evil, Population, Rooms

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• People who stare deserve the looks they get.

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  People, Looks, Manners

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