Malcolm Forbes Quotes

• We’d all like to be taken for what we’d like to be.

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• You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them.

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• Itʹs always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.

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• To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.

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• Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will.

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• Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

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• The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.

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  The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

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• To measure the man, measure his heart.

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  Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

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• The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

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• The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

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• The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

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• People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

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• Men who never get carried away should be.

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

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• When you cease to dream you cease to live.

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

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• It’s so much easier to suggest solutions when you don’t know too much about the problem.

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• Pay your people the least possible and you’ll get from them the same.

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Malcolm Forbes (49)

Birth:	19th August, 1919
Death:	24th February, 1990
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Publisher

About

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, and art.

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