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Malcolm Forbes Biography

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (19 August 1919 – 24 February 1990) was an American entrepreneur most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, founded by his father B. C. Forbes. He was known as an avid promoter of capitalism and free market trade, and for an extravagant lifestyle, spending on parties, travel, and his collection of homes, yachts, aircraft, art, motorcycles, and Fabergé eggs.

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The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes, when they do.

Ask, Knows, Ones, Smart, Sometimes

I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS.

Concerned, Liberty, People, Think, Thinking

If you don't know what you want to do, it's harder to do it.

Harder, Know, Sunscreen, Want

Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with forecasts that change more frequently than white-collar, workers do shirts. What Lies Ahead is the usual title. What Lies would often be more appropriate. If women's hemlines changed as rapidly as an economist's forecasts, the fashion people and the textile industry would be more profitable than any other. In fact, if all the country's economists were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.

Conclusion, Country, Fact, Fashion, Lying, Pay

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.

Adventure, Cost, Done, Live, Requirement, Spectacle

The day nothing turns you on - you're dead. No matter how many more years you go on breathing.

Years, Breathing, Goes On, Turns, Matter

All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn't be a dull boy.

Boy, Boys, Enough, Money, Play, Work

Why, just a couple of economic seasons ago, was idle cash considered an indication of bad management or lazy management? Because it meant that management didn't have this money out at work. . . Now look. Presto! A new fashion! Cash is back in! Denigrating liquidity has dropped quicker than hemlines. A management is now saluted if it has some cash, some liquidity, doesn't have to go to the money market at huge interest rates to get the wherewithal to keep going and growing. Along with Ben Franklin, my father and your father would understand and applaud this new economic fashion.

Couple, Fashion, Keep, Money, Work

Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.

Essentials, Food, Fuel, Soul

How to succeed? Try hard enough.

Enough, Hard, Inspirational, Succeed, Trying

Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers).

Authority, Power, Sharer, Sharing

I was loaded with sheer ability, spelled i-n-h-e-r-i-t-a-n-c-e.

Ability, Loaded, Sheer

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.

Bad, Business, News, Reassuring, Unanimity

No one ever dies wishing they'd spent more time at the office.

Dies, Office, Spent, Wish, Work Life Balance

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

Planning, Planning Ahead, Thinking, Wise

I don't think anybody can be a success who doesn't like what they do. [But it's] no job if it has no challenge; there's nothing to it if there are no problems. The essential thing is liking what you're doing.

Congratulations, Job, Jobs, Liking, Success, Thinking

Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better.

Adversity, Challenges, Human, People, Wiser

How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won't be room for us.

Evil, Handling, Maybe, Population, Rooms

If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch.

Figure, Figures, Food, Watch, Watches

A winner must first know what losing's like.

Firsts, Know, Like, Losing, Winner, Winning

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