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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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When you don't want something enough to make the effort, making an effort is a waste.
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Those carried away by power are soon carried away.
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Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes.
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Looking the part helps get the chance to fill it. But if you fill the part, it matters not if you look it.
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People who never get carried away should be.
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I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.
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Advice: It's more fun to give than to receive.
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On New York's Palm restaurant: Their steaks are often good, but the lobsters-with claws the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's forearms-are as glazed and tough as most of the customers.
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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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Enlightening editorial writers is even more difficult than educating educators.
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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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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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Once in a while there's wisdom in recognizing that the Boss is.
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Unconsciously I had discovered the commentator's secret weapon-that so long as you can wield words, it isn't necessary to know what you're talking about.
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Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.
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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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As you get older, don't slow down. Speed up. There's less time left!
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Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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