Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are. Malcolm Forbes More Quotes by Malcolm Forbes More Quotes From Malcolm Forbes Occasionally indulging in a do-nothing day is more than worth the price. Malcolm Forbes calmness relax Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better. Malcolm Forbes adversity challenges people I was loaded with sheer ability, spelled i-n-h-e-r-i-t-a-n-c-e. Malcolm Forbes sheer loaded ability Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all. Malcolm Forbes mystery science facts A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective. Malcolm Forbes military war beach The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. You can measure the awareness, the breadth and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be. Malcolm Forbes priorities civilization people There's one post-Christmas chore I love-writing thank-you letters.... Lots of companies for many reasonable reasons, I guess, have a policy against sending even Christmas cards, never mind things, at Christmastime. But our clan gets a big kick out of opening the Warner-Lambert box containing an assortment of their wares; we argue over which of the boys is to get the Union Oil Co. necktie [and] all the holiday long we play the marvelous Christmas music sent by Goodyear.... None of these things means that Forbes or Forbeses have been had. But all of us like being thought of. Malcolm Forbes holiday writing mean Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad. Malcolm Forbes moral drinking manners No one ever dies wishing they'd spent more time at the office. Malcolm Forbes work-life-balance office wish One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing. Malcolm Forbes values real Those who talk loudly are rarely listened to. Malcolm Forbes When the joy of the job's gone, when it's no fun trying anymore, quit before you're fired. Malcolm Forbes work fun jobs Age isn't important until you run out of it. Malcolm Forbes important age running I make more money selling advice than following it Malcolm Forbes more-money selling advice Things there are no solution to: Inflation, bureaucracy & dandruff. Malcolm Forbes inflation bureaucracy life Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own. Malcolm Forbes young-love generations looks Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers). Malcolm Forbes authority power After 40, one's face begins to tell more than one's tongue. Malcolm Forbes aging tongue faces To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned.... They may just have something there.... If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can't use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second. Malcolm Forbes divorce marriage thinking There's no way to move without making waves. Malcolm Forbes wave way moving