If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it. Malcolm Forbes More Quotes by Malcolm Forbes More Quotes From Malcolm Forbes Any marriage that survives a big wedding can probably survive. Malcolm Forbes marriagebigs Personal & Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter, though, the minifrauder succeeds in sowing illwill & ire. Malcolm Forbes sowingletterswriting It ticks me no end when people get ticked off at those of us who comment audibly and in print on events and problems. That's what we're paid for. Why clutter up your mind with a bunch of facts that might inhibit the solve-ability of us who must express an opinion? After all, all the world cries out for a solution to its problems, and we supply them right and left. Come to think of it, it's we who should be giving our deplorers and detractors the blast; because 99% of the time they don't do as we say. Malcolm Forbes writingpeoplethinking Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul. Malcolm Forbes fuelessentialssoul When it's your own fault, things hurt worse than when someone else is to blame. Malcolm Forbes blamefaultshurt What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at? Malcolm Forbes advertisingwantsports Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time. Malcolm Forbes leadertimeinspirational Real writers-that is, capital W Writers-rarely make much money. Their biggest reward is the occasional reader's response.... Commentators-in-print voicing big fat opinions-you might call us small w writers-get considerably more feedback than Writers. The letters I personally find most flattering are not the very rare ones that speak well of my editorials, but the occasional reader who wants to know who writes them. I always happily assume the letter-writers is implying that the editorials are so good that I couldn't have written them myself. Malcolm Forbes realletterswriting If you don't know, it's not always necessary to admit it. Malcolm Forbes ifsknowsknowledge Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do. Malcolm Forbes bossknowsknowledge If you do not know what you're doing stacked on his desk, a dozen colleagues Initially sticks with a large number of papers and pass them. In case of doubt, the way in. Malcolm Forbes paperdoubtnumbers Some days are for living. Others are for getting through. Malcolm Forbes good-and-bad-dayscrappy-daybad-day I hope a start at getting some oil out of the enormous Alaska field isn't indefinitely mired in a bureaucratic morass as a result of our national concern for the ecology. This concern must not be so misguided, misdirected, misused that it serves to stop economic growth, to bankrupt companies, to stifle new development, new jobs, new horizons. In fighting new pollution and stemming present pollution, exciting, sometimes costly means and methods exist and others will evolve. But blanket legislative naysaying to expanding power and energy sources is stupid, self-defeating. Malcolm Forbes naturestupidjobs When a fissure off the California coast started pumping and dumping oil on the nearby towns and beaches, everybody started dumping on Union Oil. Matters weren't helped one iota by a manufactured quotation attributed to Union's president, Fred Hartley, alleging his amazement at the publicity for the loss of a few birds.... Fred Hartley never said what the press reported, as the transcript and the Senate committee members definitely established. But I don't suppose the truth will ever catch up with the more colorful falsehood. Malcolm Forbes naturelossbeach Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? Will federal and state laws be enacted with effective enforcement clauses? Will people be concerned long enough to pay the bill through higher prices? Will towns tole lost jobs when it proves too costly to clean obsolete plants?... I think so, but it sure won't be as easy as the present outcry and political oratory suggest. The answers to preserving a livable environment are not all simple, and some of the nuts now pushing simplistic cure-alls won't help bring about any lasting solutions. Malcolm Forbes naturejobsthinking I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS. Malcolm Forbes libertypeoplethinking Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn't want to be. Malcolm Forbes wantmen Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't. Malcolm Forbes disciplinekidschildren A big cigar in a young face requires the best of both. Malcolm Forbes cigarbigsfaces How to fail: Try too hard. Malcolm Forbes failurefailingtrying
