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

About 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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Men who never get carried away should be.

—Malcolm Forbes

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

—Malcolm Forbes

Failure is success if we learn from it.

—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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Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

—John F. Kennedy

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

—John F. Kennedy

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

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