Malcolm Forbes Quotes - Page 6

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• I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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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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• Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.

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  Time, Knowing, Important

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• What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

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  Men, Experts, Would Be

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• A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Beach, Military, War

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• Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Ems

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• The top people of the biggest companies are, surprisingly, often the nicest ones in their company I'm not sure, though, if they got there because they were good guys or that they're now good guys because they can afford to be.

  Malcolm Forbes

  People, Guy, Not Sure

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• One thing that previous practice doesn't always make perfect: Marriage.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Marriage, Practice, Perfect

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• Daydreams are doable. The turn-on is not in scale, spectacle, or cost. It's in the doing. Anything you haven't done is an adventure. Wanting to is the principal requirement. If you can do and want to, don't not. In short, while alive, live.

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  Adventure, Cost, Done

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

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  Real, Values

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

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  Knowledge, Knows, Ifs

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• Those carried away by power are soon carried away.

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  Power, Carried Away

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

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  Degrees, Socialism, Share

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

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  Party, Thinking, Deals

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• Anticipating is more fun than recollecting.

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  Fun

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

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  Teacher, Students, Teach

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

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  Profit, Grows, Greater

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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.

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  Art, Agreement, Bird

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

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  Understanding, Looks, Sometimes

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

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  Meaningful, Discovery

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• The hardest time to tell: when to stop.

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  Action, Hardest Times, Hardest

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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.

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  Children, Successful, Men

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

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  Ears, Earning, Young

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

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  Food, Watches, Figures

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