Malcolm Forbes

“The best vision is insight.”

“Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.”

“When you cease to dream you cease to live.”

“Failure is success if we learn from it.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.”

“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.”

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

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

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