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

Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American billionaire
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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American billionaire
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Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American billionaire
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American billionaire
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Quoted in Earl Wilson, "Coco Offered Fatty Arbuckle Role," Hartford Courant (6 Aug 1972); earliest reference found for Forbes. A variant is found in The Sayings of Chairman Malcolm (1978): “You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.”

The earliest version of the sentiment appears to be Paul Eldridge.
 
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Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American billionaire
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A bore: Someone who persists in holding to his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American billionaire
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Quoted in Ted Goodman, ed., The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (1997).
 
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Sure things seldom are.

Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American billionaire
The Sayings of Chairman Malcolm: The Capitalist’s Handbook, “More Definitions” (1978)
 
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.

Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American billionaire
The Sayings of Chairman Malcolm (1978)
 
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To be agreeable while disagreeing — that’s an art.

Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American billionaire
The Sayings of Chairman Malcolm, “Arrived” (1978)
 
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Repeating mistakes is more likely than profiting from them.

Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American billionaire
The Sayings of Chairman Malcolm, “Fact and Comment” (1978)
 
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The difference between men and boys
Is the price of their toys.

Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American billionaire
The Sayings of Chairman Malcolm, “Simple Truths” (1978)

Also attributed to Liberace, J. T. Russell, Joyce Brothers, Mark Twain, Doris Rowland, and Dorothy Parker. The phrase can be found in this form in Millard Dale Baughman, Educator's Handbook of Stories, Quotes and Humor (1963), and in 1964 Senate testimony.

For a likely predecessor, see Franklin.
 
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Some days are for living. Others are for getting through.

Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American billionaire
The Sayings of Chairman Malcolm, “You Don’t Say?” (1978)
 
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“Money isn’t everything,” — according to those who have it.

Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American billionaire
The Sayings of Chariman Malcolm, “Nobody’s Capitalist Fool” (1978)
 
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