Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
~ Malcolm S. Forbes - [Self-esteem]

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
~ Malcolm S. Forbes - [Service]

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
~ Malcolm S. Forbes - [Success]

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
~ Malcolm S. Forbes - [Thoughts and Thinking]

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
~ Malcolm S. Forbes - [Victory]

The best vision is insight.
~ Malcolm S. Forbes - [Vision]

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
~ Malcolm S. Forbes - [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.
~ Malcolm S. Forbes - [Politicians and Politics]

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
~ Malcolm S. Forbes - [Problems]

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
~ Malcolm S. Forbes - [Responsibility]

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
~ Malcolm S. Forbes - [Right and Rightness]

If you never budge, don't expect a push.
~ Malcolm S. Forbes - [Risk]

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
~ Malcolm S. Forbes - [Management]

Let your children go if you want to keep them.
~ Malcolm S. Forbes - [Parents and Parenting]

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 S. Forbes - [Experts]

Presence is more than just being there.
~ Malcolm S. Forbes - [Focus]

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
~ Malcolm S. Forbes - [Giving]

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
~ Malcolm S. Forbes - [Happiness]

By the time we've made it, we've had it.
~ Malcolm S. Forbes - [Health]

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.
~ Malcolm S. Forbes - [Importance]