Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

- Malcolm Forbes

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

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

- Malcolm Forbes

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

- Malcolm Forbes

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.

- Malcolm Forbes

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

- Malcolm Forbes

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

- Malcolm Forbes

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

- Malcolm Forbes

Men who never get carried away should be.

- Malcolm Forbes

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

- Malcolm Forbes

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

People who never get carried away should be.

- Malcolm Forbes

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

- Malcolm Forbes

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

- Malcolm Forbes

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

- Malcolm Forbes

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

- Malcolm Forbes

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

- Malcolm Forbes

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

- Malcolm Forbes

To measure the man, measure his heart.

- Malcolm Forbes

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

- Malcolm Forbes