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Malcolm Forbes

14 quotes

Who is Malcolm Forbes? The quotes below are the best introduction we can offer. The range of their thinking — from Success to Education — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. 16 of Malcolm Forbes's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Success, Education, Best, Time, and Sympathy. One standout: "Failure is success if we learn from it."

“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

— Malcolm Forbes

Education

All Quotes by Malcolm Forbes

“The more sympathy you give, the less you need.”

— Malcolm Forbes

Sympathy

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

— Malcolm Forbes

Education

“When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.”

— Malcolm Forbes

Hope

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

— Malcolm Forbes

Time

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

— Malcolm Forbes

Best

“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

— Malcolm Forbes

Education

“The best vision is insight.”

— Malcolm Forbes

Best

“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

Business

“Failure is success if we learn from it.”

— Malcolm Forbes

Failure

“When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.”

— Malcolm Forbes

Happiness

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

— Malcolm Forbes

History

“Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.”

— Malcolm Forbes

Art

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

— Malcolm Forbes

Success

“When you cease to dream you cease to live.”

— Malcolm Forbes

Dreams