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Malcolm Forbes
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Malcolm Forbes
Age: 70 †
Born: 1919
Born: August 19
Died: 1990
Died: February 24
Art Collector
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Journalist
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Socialite
Englewood
New Jersey
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Malcolm S. Forbes
Steve Forbes
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A Tax Loophole: A deduction that the other guy gets.
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Victory is sweetest when you've know defeat. Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. You pay for everything, even including speaking your mind (with or without one). Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
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After 40, one's face begins to tell more than one's tongue.
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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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How to get taken: Spend most of your time making sure you're not.
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If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
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Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
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When you don't want something enough to make the effort, making an effort is a waste.
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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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In the long run, a short cut seldom is.
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How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won't be room for us.
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