Malcolm Forbes Quotes

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

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.

The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.

Things there are no solution to: Inflation, bureaucracy & dandruff.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

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

Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.

People who can’t see without glasses should wear them.

If you want understanding try giving some.

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

I haven't a clue about the biology or the psychology involved when a person dissolves into tears, but it is quite fascinating to note what turns them on. There are wives who can cascade over a late husband or a burned dinner, and equally pour tears of joy over a new bonnet or a renovated bathroom.... A while ago I took a ship back from Europe. Amid the tumbling confetti ... I found myself misty-eyed watching a young lady waving a tearful farewell to her boyfriend on the dock. I couldn't figure out if I was crying at her plight, or in delight that he wasn't coming along with us.

If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.

Too few accomplish twice as much as too many.

Where you're from only matters in relation to where you are.

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.

Anticipating is more fun than recollecting.

If you do not know what you're doing stacked on his desk, a dozen colleagues Initially sticks with a large number of papers and pass them. In case of doubt, the way in.

The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. You can measure the awareness, the breadth and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be.

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

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

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.

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.

SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism-- and there are those who think they are one and the same.

Clout is something some seem to have-until they try exercising it.

It's a very short trip. While alive, live.

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

After 40, one's face begins to tell more than one's tongue.

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

To measure the man, measure his heart.

Hoarding one's hurts hurts only the hoarder.

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

It's much more profitable to sell investing advice than to follow it.

Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who don't reach desired destinations.

Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose.

Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.

Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better.

At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.

Speculator: One who bought stocks that went down.