Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad. Malcolm Forbes More Quotes by Malcolm Forbes More Quotes From Malcolm Forbes Working at what you enjoy is far more important than what you're working at. Malcolm Forbes enjoyimportantwork Looking the part helps get the chance to fill it. But if you fill the part, it matters not if you look it. Malcolm Forbes matterhelpinglooks Hoarding one's hurts hurts only the hoarder. Malcolm Forbes hoardinghurt People who stare deserve the looks they get. Malcolm Forbes mannerspeoplelooks 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. Malcolm Forbes fashionmoneycouple If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch. Malcolm Forbes figuresfoodwatches Some of the biggest bores I've ever known are men who have been highly successful in business, particularly self-made heads of big companies. Before the first olive has settled into the first martini, they pour the stories of their lives into the nearest and sometimes the remotest ears capturable.... These men have indeed paid the price of success. To rise to the top of a big company often takes a totality of effort, concentration and dedication. Others, too, have to pay part of the price. Wife and children are out of mind even when in sight. Malcolm Forbes successfulmenchildren When you catch what you're after, it's gone. Malcolm Forbes gone In all the thrashing about that results from our dwindling gold reserves, it's about time that this country and other countries get some perspective on the situation. The day this country is out of the stuff, that day gold becomes what it's worth as a metal and no longer will have much significance as a monetary measurement. It isn't the gold we have that makes this nation rich. It's what we make, our knowhow, our productivity. So long as this country produces more and better, the world will continue to want what we make. Malcolm Forbes perspectivelongcountry The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks around 'em risk wringing. Malcolm Forbes rocksriskreal Security isn't securities. It's knowing that someone cares whether you are or cease to be. Malcolm Forbes securitycareknowing Anticipating is more fun than recollecting. Malcolm Forbes fun On New York's Palm restaurant: Their steaks are often good, but the Malcolm Forbes sizenew-yorklobster Those carried away by power are soon carried away. Malcolm Forbes carried-awaypower When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness. Malcolm Forbes laughterhappyhappiness Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have. Malcolm Forbes virtuehalfcompliment What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in? Malcolm Forbes officecallinghome Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too. Malcolm Forbes making-mistakesemsmistake A hug's a happy thing while a shrug's so often destructive. Malcolm Forbes happy-thingshughappiness Old age is not for sissies. Malcolm Forbes sissyagebirthday
