If you expect nothing, you’re apt to be surprised. You’ll get it.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Health, Expectation, Optimism, Positive Attitudes
Presence is more than just being there.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Romance, Perspective
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Knowledge
The hardest time to tell: when to stop.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Action
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Education
One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Questions
Failure is success if we learn from it.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Failure, Success, Adversity, Strength
No one’s a leader if there are no followers.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Leadership
Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Service
Since we had nothing to do with our arrival and usually are not consulted about our departure, what makes so many of us think we’re entitled to so much while we’re here?
—Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Life
Isn’t it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Memory
There’s no way to move without making waves.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
There is never enough time, unless you’re serving it.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he’s hired to do.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Business
When the joy of the job’s gone, when it’s no fun trying anymore, quit before you’re fired.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Work
It’s always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Judgment, Virtues, Caring, Integrity, Character
If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Criticism
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Forgiveness, Anger
When looking back, usually I’m more sorry for the things I didn’t do than for the things I shouldn’t have done.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Doing
All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn’t be a dull boy.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
Topics: Money
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
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