Malcolm Forbes Quotes - Page 7

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

  Malcolm Forbes

  Food, Watches, Figures

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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.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Children, Successful, Men

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• Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Children, Kids, Discipline

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• At today's prices for medicines, doctors and hospitals-if the latter are available at any price-only millionaires can afford to be hurt or sick and pay for it. Very few people want socialized medicine in the U.S. But pressure for it is going to appear with the same hurricane force as the demand for pollution control if the medicine men and hospital operators don't take soon some Draconian measures... At the present rate of doctor fees and hospital costs under Medicare and Medicaid plans [taxpayers] are shovelling in billions with nothing but escalation in sight.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Hurt, Men, Doctors

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• Looking the part helps get the chance to fill it. But if you fill the part, it matters not if you look it.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Looks, Matter, Helping

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• A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Views, Boredom, Enlightened

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• Advice: It's more fun to give than to receive.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Fun, Giving, Advice

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• Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Book, Years, Mind

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• Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Memories, Recollection, Selective

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• None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Hands, Giving, Joy

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

  Malcolm Forbes

  Too Much, Waste, Wealth

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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.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Stars, Real, Stupid

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

  Malcolm Forbes

  Fun, Conclusion, Justify

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

  Malcolm Forbes

  Faces, Cigar, Bigs

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

  Malcolm Forbes

  Men, Ems, Opinion

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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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