Malcolm Forbes. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (August 19, 1919 – February 24, 1990) was publisher of Forbes magazine, founded by his father B.C. Forbes and today run by his son Steve Forbes. The best quotations and sayings about business with comments.
What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.
Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
How to succeed? Try hard enough.
Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.