MALCOLM FORBES

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

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.

The best vision is insight.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

People who never get carried away should be.

It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

To measure the man, measure his heart.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.