Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990)

Quotes

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

• Too many people overvalue what they are, and undervalue what they are not.

• Men who never get carried away should be.

• There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

• If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

• When in doubt, duck.

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

• You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them.

• Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

• If you have a job without aggravation, you don't have a job.

• Failure is success if we learn from it.

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

• By the time we've made it, we've had it.

• Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

• An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.