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Presence is more than just being there.
Malcolm Forbes
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Malcolm Forbes
Age: 70 †
Born: 1919
Born: August 19
Died: 1990
Died: February 24
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New Jersey
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Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.
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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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Listening to advice often accomplishes far more than heeding it.
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One often reads about the art of conversation-how it's dying or what's needed to make it flourish, or how rare good ones are. But wouldn't you agree that the infinitely more valuable rara avis [rare bird] is a good listener.
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Accepting blame when it's not really due sometimes makes the point better.
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A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
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You have to come up in the world before it's worthwhile for those worth less to put you down.
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Money isn't everything as long as you have enough.
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There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.
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Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.
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If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.
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A lot of money doesn't make anyone more often right. It just makes him harder to correct.
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Daydreams are doable. The turn-on is not in scale, spectacle, or cost. It's in the doing. Anything you haven't done is an adventure. Wanting to is the principal requirement. If you can do and want to, don't not. In short, while alive, live.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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I think legislative assaults on motorcyclists are totally emotionally, disproportionate and totally unfair....they're instigated and implemented by people who know nothing about motorcycling, but have a prejudice. It's easy to curb the freedoms of others when you see no immediate impact on your own.
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I don't waste too much time philosophizing about wealth, I just recommend it to everyone.
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We'd all like to be taken for what we'd like to be.
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The day nothing turns you on - you're dead. No matter how many more years you go on breathing.
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