Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Malcolm S. Forbes (American Publisher)

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (1919–90) was an American business leader and socialite. The owner-publisher of the Forbes magazine 1957–90, he was notorious for his opulent lifestyle and his self-glorification.

Born in Brooklyn, New York City, Forbes inherited his wealth from his father, B. C. Forbes, who launched Malcolm at the Fairfield Times newspaper as owner and publisher only days after his matriculation from Princeton University.

After serving in the Army during World War II, Malcolm became a state senator in New Jersey 1951–58 and contested unsuccessfully for governor his 1957. When his father died in 1954, Malcolm Forbes became publisher and editor in chief of Forbes. Under his direction, the glossy business magazine flourished from a circulation of 100,000 to 720,000. He also founded the Nation’s Heritage magazine and a journal for art lovers called Egg.

A well-known collector, Forbes developed properties in California, Maine, and Fiji, and owned a château in Normandy, a mansion in London, an island in the South Seas, a palace in Tangier, Morocco, and collections of motorcycles, Peter Carl Fabergé imperial Easter eggs, and Oriental paintings. He set six world records in hot air ballooning.

Branded as a man who adored the spotlight, Forbes was well known for his extravagant lifestyle. He earned the nickname “the happiest millionaire.” On his last birthday, he incited controversy by giving a $2 million party, for which he flew some 1,000 guests to Tangier, Morocco. Not only that, he went out of his way to make sure that everyone who had not been invited knew what they had missed.

Forbes wrote More Than I Dreamed: A Lifetime of Collecting (1989.) A famous biography is Christopher Winans’s Malcolm Forbes: The Man Who Had Everything (1990.)

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A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Power, Responsibility

How would you know what happy is if you’ve never been otherwise.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Happiness

Blaming the U.S. for most of their problems is usually food for bursts of applause among our allies, and ever more frequently within the Third World…. But where do they put what’s nearest and dearest to them-their money? Here. In the last year and a half oversea-ers have invested more money in the U.S. than ever before; more, for the first time, than Americans have invested abroad. So, too, their cash stash in U.S. stocks, bonds and Treasuries soars. The French send the Socialists to power and their money to New York.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: America

Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Anger

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Giving, Sympathy, Charity, Kindness, One liners

Accepting blame when it’s not really due sometimes makes the point better.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Blame

At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Heart

Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Generations

TV cassette players will take ever-bigger bites out of the regular TV-viewing audience, moviegoers, sports and other event-attending spectators. Cassette players are now the hottest thing on the entertainment scene since popcorn… Movie cassettes are improving the margin of profit for more and more Hollywood hits that don’t at the box office. And of course, there is the home video camera… The only limitation is the viewer’s time. And there, my friends, is the rub of the matter. With only one pair of eyes and a 24-hour day, tape-popping addicts have less and less time for going out to pay to see things.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Media

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don’t understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn’t a business.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Politicians, Politics

If you’ve had a good time playing the game, you’re a winner even if you lose.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Success, Winning

Hoarding one’s hurts hurts only the hoarder.
Malcolm S. Forbes

Looking the part helps get the chance to fill it. But if you fill the part, it matters not if you look it.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Appearance

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.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Business

Those carried away by power are soon carried away.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Power

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 S. Forbes
Topics: Adversity

It’s the less-bright students who make teachers teach better.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Education

Generous gestures yield the most when that isn’t their purpose.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Generosity

Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn’t want to be.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Man

It’s always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.
Malcolm S. Forbes

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Education

Most everyone wants to do what’s fair, right, and good, but knowing what is is often the tough part.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Justice

Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn’t.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Children

Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Defeat, Victory, One liners

All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn’t be a dull boy.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Money

Personal & Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter, though, the minifrauder succeeds in sowing illwill & ire.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Writing

An inadequate chief executive officer’s time at the top is always too long no matter how short.
Malcolm S. Forbes

People who can’t see without glasses should wear them.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Life

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Awareness, Blessings, Gratitude, Self Respect, Adversity, Humility, Appreciation, Difficulties, Values, Self Confidence, Self-Esteem, Acceptance, Realization

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 S. Forbes
Topics: Nature

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