Forbes, Malcolm S.
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Forbes, Malcolm S.
Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he s hired to do.
Forbes, Malcolm S.
Business
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Forbes, Malcolm S.
Dreams
If you don t know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
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Delegation
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one
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Education
When what we are is what we want to be, that s happiness.
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Happiness
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.
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Experts
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
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Giving
Presence is more than just being there.
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Focus
By the time we ve made it, we ve had it.
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Health
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.
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Importance
Pay your people the least possible and you ll get from them the same.
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Management
It s so much easier to suggest solutions when you don t know too much about the problem.
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Problems
Elected leaders who forget how they got there won t the next time.
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Politicians and Politics
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.
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Politicians and Politics
Let your children go if you want to keep them.
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Parents and Parenting
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
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Thoughts and Thinking
Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
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Service
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
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Self-esteem
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
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Responsibility
If you never budge, don t expect a push.
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Risk
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
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Right and Rightness
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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Success
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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Diversity
Failure is success if we learn from it.
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Adversity
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
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Enjoyment
People who never get carried away should be.
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Enthusiasm
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.
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Adversity
If you expect nothing, you re apt to be surprised. You ll get it.
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Expectation
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
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Ability
The best vision is insight.
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Vision
If you have a job without aggravations, you don t have a job.
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Work
Victory is sweetest when you ve known defeat.
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Victory