Malcolm Forbes Business Quotes

"When you cease to dream you cease to live."

"Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections"

"Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time"

"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs"

"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."

"If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route."

"If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it."

"It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem."

"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are."

"Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same."

"Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful."

"The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy."

"What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much."

"When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better."

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