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Malcolm Forbes
Age: 70 †
Born: 1919
Born: August 19
Died: 1990
Died: February 24
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A winner must first know what losing's like.
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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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Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
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Anticipating is more fun than recollecting.
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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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Speculator: One who bought stocks that went down.
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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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It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
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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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It's much more profitable to sell investing advice than to follow it.
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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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Trying to impress others does - usually in quite the opposite way.
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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.
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A Tax Loophole: A deduction that the other guy gets.
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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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You have to come up in the world before it's worthwhile for those worth less to put you down.
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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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