Malcolm Forbes Quotes
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
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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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Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
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To measure the man, measure his heart.
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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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Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
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Men who never get carried away should be.
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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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If you never budge, don't expect a push.