Quotes

“Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.” Malcolm Forbes

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

“Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.” Malcolm Forbes

“Presence is more than just being there.” Malcolm Forbes

“If you never budge, don't expect a push.” Malcolm Forbes

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

“People who never get carried away should be.” Malcolm Forbes

“Men who never get carried away should be.” Malcolm Forbes

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

“If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.” Malcolm Forbes

“It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.” Malcolm Forbes

“The more sympathy you give, the less you need.” Malcolm Forbes

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

“Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.” Malcolm Forbes

“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 Forbes

“One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.” Edward Morgan Forster

“Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.” Edward Morgan Forster

“Reverence is fatal to literature.” Edward Morgan Forster

“Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.” Edward Morgan Forster

“England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.” Edward Morgan Forster

“I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.” Edward Morgan Forster

“I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.” Edward Morgan Forster

“If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.” Edward Morgan Forster

“It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.” Edward Morgan Forster

“It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.” Edward Morgan Forster

“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.” Edward Morgan Forster

“Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.” Edward Morgan Forster

“One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.” Edward Morgan Forster

“Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.” Edward Morgan Forster

“Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.” Edward Morgan Forster