A biography for Malcolm Forbeshasn’t been written yet.
“Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.”
“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.”
“It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.”
“Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
“To measure the man, measure his heart.”
“By the time we've made it, we've had it.”
“People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.”
“Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.”
“If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.”
“The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.”
“It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.”
“The best vision is insight.”
“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
“Let your children go if you want to keep them.”
“Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.”
“When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.”
“Presence is more than just being there.”
“Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.”
“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
“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.”