Malcolm Forbes Quotes - Page 8

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• Speaking of birthdays, our firstborn [recently turned 2]. As parents sometimes fondly do, we reminisced a bit about his early days on earth-the excitement, the wonder, the fears when we brought him home. His every squeak or squawk we were sure heralded some terrible crisis; I tested the warmth of formulas from dusk to dawn, it seemed. We were so germ-conscious my wife even sterilized the skin of the oranges before squeezing them. How firstborns ever survive their parents' attentions is beyond me. However, they do, and he did, and, in spite of our efforts, he turned out to be quite a good guy.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Children, Home, Orange

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• I think legislative assaults on motorcyclists are totally emotionally, disproportionate and totally unfair....they're instigated and implemented by people who know nothing about motorcycling, but have a prejudice. It's easy to curb the freedoms of others when you see no immediate impact on your own.

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  Thinking, Impact, People

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• Once in a while there's wisdom in recognizing that the Boss is.

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  Wisdom, Boss, Recognizing

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• A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Men

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• To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned.... They may just have something there.... If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can't use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second.

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  Marriage, Divorce, Thinking

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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?

  Malcolm Forbes

  Dog, Block, Gun

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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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• The last thing you do the best is what you have the most joy doing.

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  Joy, Lasts, Action

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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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• 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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• Enlightening editorial writers is even more difficult than educating educators.

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  Enlightening, Educator, Newspapers

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Art, Drama, Office

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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.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Nice, Worry, Worried

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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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• Hoarding one's hurts hurts only the hoarder.

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  Hurt, Hoarding

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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.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Education, Want, Requirements

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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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• Any marriage that survives a big wedding can probably survive.

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  Marriage, Bigs

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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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• I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS.

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  Thinking, People, Liberty

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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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• 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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