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Malcolm Forbes
Age: 70 †
Born: 1919
Born: August 19
Died: 1990
Died: February 24
Art Collector
Businessperson
Journalist
Politician
Publisher
Socialite
Englewood
New Jersey
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Malcolm S. Forbes
Steve Forbes
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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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If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
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If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch.
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I don't think anybody can be a success who doesn't like what they do. [But it's] no job if it has no challenge there's nothing to it if there are no problems. The essential thing is liking what you're doing.
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Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't.
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I don't waste too much time philosophizing about wealth, I just recommend it to everyone.
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Once in a while there's wisdom in recognizing that the Boss is.
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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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Money isn't everything as long as you have enough.
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It doesn't take much of a rule to measure a mean man.
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For some of us it seems like yesterday when Ike was in the White House, the U.S. Senate censured Joe McCarthy, and the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in public school was unconstitutional.
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I make more money selling advice than following it
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There are a handful of companies who understand all successful business operations come down to three basic principles People---Product---Profit. Without top people, you cannot do much with the other two.
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. . . the most difficult thing asked by our young is not our earnings but our ears.
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The art of conversation lies in listening.
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing.
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What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in?
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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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SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism-- and there are those who think they are one and the same.
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