Malcolm Forbes Quotes
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If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
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Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
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Men who never get carried away should be.
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To measure the man, measure his heart.
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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.
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Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
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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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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.
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Be Nice. Contrary to the cliché, genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it. I admit it's not easy when you've got a gripe. To be agreeable while disagreeing - that's an art. Be natural - write the way you talk.
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Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
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People who never get carried away should be.