Malcolm Forbes Quotes - Page 9

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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.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Jobs, Work, Thinking

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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.

  Malcolm Forbes

  New York, Lobster, Size

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• It is never too late to learn.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Too Late, Never Too Late, Late

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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.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Nature, Jobs, Thinking

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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.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Beach, Nature, Loss

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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.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Nature, Jobs, Stupid

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

  Malcolm Forbes

  Peace, War, Gun

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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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• 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.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Country, Fashion, Lying

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• Real writers-that is, capital W Writers-rarely make much money. Their biggest reward is the occasional reader's response.... Commentators-in-print voicing big fat opinions-you might call us small w writers-get considerably more feedback than Writers. The letters I personally find most flattering are not the very rare ones that speak well of my editorials, but the occasional reader who wants to know who writes them. I always happily assume the letter-writers is implying that the editorials are so good that I couldn't have written them myself.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Real, Writing, Letters

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• What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at?

  Malcolm Forbes

  Sports, Want, Advertising

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• It ticks me no end when people get ticked off at those of us who comment audibly and in print on events and problems. That's what we're paid for. Why clutter up your mind with a bunch of facts that might inhibit the solve-ability of us who must express an opinion? After all, all the world cries out for a solution to its problems, and we supply them right and left. Come to think of it, it's we who should be giving our deplorers and detractors the blast; because 99% of the time they don't do as we say.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• As you get older there shouldn't be anything you won't try. The payoff is that you open up whole new avenues that are fun. It's a misinterpretation of life to live it only in preparation for the next one. To subordinate the one you've got to an indefinite next round is foolish. It's a waste of this life not to live this life. What's next is anybody's guess.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Fun, Preparation, Trying

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• It doesn't take much of a rule to measure a mean man.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Anger, Mean, Men

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• The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks around 'em risk wringing.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Real, Rocks, Risk

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• Security isn't securities. It's knowing that someone cares whether you are or cease to be.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Knowing, Care, Security

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• Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office.... I worked in the mail cage, where envelopes were slit and subscription payments extracted. Dad used to come pounding down the office aisle and pause long enough to ask, How much today? Inevitably the answer was inadequate-except once. That day the controller said excitedly, Mr. Forbes, the ledger shows a slight profit this month! ... My father turned to him and said, Young man, I don't give a damn what your books show. Do we have any money in the bank?

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  Summer, Dad, Father

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• Speculator: One who bought stocks that went down.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Business, Speculators, Own Business

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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.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Fashion, Money, Couple

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

  Malcolm Forbes

  Soul, Essentials, Fuel

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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.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Evil, Population, Rooms

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• Give naught, get same. Give much, get same.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Generosity, Giving, Stewardship

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

  Malcolm Forbes

  Success, World, Come Up

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• When you catch what you're after, it's gone.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Gone

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• People who stare deserve the looks they get.

  Malcolm Forbes

  People, Looks, Manners

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