Malcolm Forbes

“Acceptance and Work If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.”

“People who never get carried away should be.”

“Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.”

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”

“If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.”

“Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.”

“If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.”

“How to succeed: try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.”

“To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.”

“Presence is more than just being there.”

“The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.”

“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.”

“Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.”

“Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.”

“Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

“Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.”

“Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.”

“Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.”

“Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.”

“If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.”