Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (August 19, 1919 – February 24, 1990) was publisher of Forbes magazine, founded by his father B. C. Forbes and today run by his son Steve Forbes.
Forbes was born in Brooklyn on August 19, 1919 to B. C. Forbes and Adelaide Stevenson. He graduated from the Lawrenceville School and Princeton University.
After dabbling in politics, including service in the New Jersey Senate from 1951 to 1957 and candidacy for Governor of New ...
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Date of birth:
- Aug 19, 1919
Date of death:
- Feb 24, 1990 (age 70 years)
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Quotations:
- People who never get carried away should be. ,
- 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. ,
- Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all. ,
- The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy. ,
- 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. ,
- If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job. ,
- 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. ,
- When you cease to dream you cease to live. ,
- The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one ,
- Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
