Men who never get carried away should be.

—Malcolm Forbes

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Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (August 19, 1919 – February 24, 1990) 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...

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By the time we've made it, we've had it.

—Malcolm Forbes

Failure is success if we learn from it.

—Malcolm Forbes

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

—Malcolm Forbes

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

—Malcolm Forbes

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

—Malcolm Forbes

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There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.

—Alice Thomas Ellis

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Men aren't stupid, and you don't need a complicated set of rules to find a good one who loves you. Here's the only rule you need: if a man loves you, he will do anything he can to keep you around. Anything.

—Kim Gruenenfelder in A Total Waste of Makeup

Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they're dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right. Unromantic, but still true.

—Laurell K. Hamilton in A Kiss of Shadows

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

—Oliver Herford

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Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.

—Margaret Mead

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