By the time we've made it, we've had it.
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Malcolm Forbes
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About Malcolm Forbes
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes was an American businessman and politician most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, which was founded by his father B. C. Forbes. He represented Somerset County in the New Jersey Senate from 1952 to 1958 and ran two campaigns for Governor of New Jersey. In 1953, he lost the Republican nomination to Paul L. Troast, who had the support of most of the party establishment. In 1957, he won the Republican nomination but lost the general election to incumben…
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
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.
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.
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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.
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
The best vision is insight.
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.