Malcolm Forbes Quotes
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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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.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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The best vision is insight.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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By the time we've made it, we've had it.
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
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If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
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Let your children go if you want to keep them.
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Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.