Forbes Quotes

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

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

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

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.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

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

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

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.

People who never get carried away should be.

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

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

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

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

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

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

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

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

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.

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.