Malcolm Forbes

Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?

Malcolm Forbes

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

Malcolm Forbes

Daydreams are doable. The turn-on is not in scale, spectacle, or cost. It’s in the doing. Anything you haven’t done is an adventure. Wanting to is the principal requirement. If you can do and want to, don’t not. In short, while alive, live.

Malcolm Forbes

Economists’ unanimity that bad business is ahead is the most reassuring news possible. It’s very unlikely that this will be the one time they’re right.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Malcolm Forbes

Enlightening editorial writers is even more difficult than educating educators.

Malcolm Forbes

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Malcolm Forbes

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.

Malcolm Forbes

Generous gestures yield the most when that isn’t their purpose.

Malcolm Forbes

How would you know what happy is if you’ve never been otherwise.

Malcolm Forbes