Most Famous Forbes Magazine Quotes

Forbes magazine is a well-known American business magazine that covers topics such as finance, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, and leadership. It’s particularly famous for its lists, including the Forbes 400 (a list of the wealthiest Americans) and the Forbes Global 2000 (a comprehensive list of the world’s largest public companies). Forbes also publishes articles on various industries, trends in the business world, and profiles of successful individuals and companies. It’s widely respected for its in-depth analysis and authoritative voice in the business community.

Forbes Magazine Quotes

1. “Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.”
— Sir Walter Scott

2. “When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.”
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

3. “A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
— Francis Bacon

4. “God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it. Let our object be our country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the wor …”
— Daniel Webster

5. “Discipline without freedom is tyranny. Freedom without discipline is chaos.”
— Cullen Hightower

6. “Looking the part helps get the chance to fill it. But if you fill the part, it matters not if you look it.”
— Malcolm Forbes

7. “Time ripens all things. No man’s born wise.”
— Miguel de Cervantes

8. “We protract the career of time by employment, we lengthen the duration of our lives by wise thoughts and useful actions. Life to him who wishes not to have lived in vain is thought and action.”
— Johann Zimmermann

9. “Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition.”
— Jules Simon

10. “Nothing can be truly great which is not right.”
— Samuel Johnson

11. “No one fouls his hands in his own business.”
— Italian Proverb

12. “Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.”
— Lord Chesterfield

13. “Even for the neurotic executive-as for everyone else-work has great therapeutic value; it is generally his last refuge, and deterioration there marks the final collapse of the man; his marriage, his social life, and the outside interests-all have suffered beforehand.”
— Richard A. Smith

14. “We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.”
— Mark Twain

15. “May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.”
— Joey Adams

16. “The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”
— C.S. Lewis

17. “The cost of a thing is that amount of life which must be exchanged for it.”
— Henry David Thoreau

18. “There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one.”
— Elmer G. Leterman

19. “Don’t show off every day, or you’ll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.”
— Baltasar Gracian

20. “One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one’s faith, one’s love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.”
— Anaïs Nin

21. “Sometimes what a man escapes to is worse than what he escapes from.”
— Stan Lynde

22. “Ignorance is not innocence but sin.”
— Robert Browning

23. “We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a dark night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going …”
— Joan Didion

24. “Wealth is a great thing to have and a great thing to share.”
— Harold Honickman

25. “My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can’t.”
— Beverly Sills

26. “How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man’s self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.”
— Charles Lamb

27. “Drink never made a man better, but it made many a man think he was better.”
— Finley Peter Dunne

28. “He who knows others is clever, but he who knows himself is enlightened.”
— Lao-tzu

29. “Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”
— Herbert Kaufman

30. “Fitness: If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a good body.”
— Cher

31. “Some of the greatest love affairs I’ve known have involved one actor-unassisted.”
— Wilson Mizner

32. “Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.”
— Tryon Edwards

33. “Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.”
— Leigh Hunt

34. “They copied all they could copy, But they couldn’t copy my mind; And I left them sweatin’ and stealin’, A year and a half behind.”
— Rudyard Kipling

35. “Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. They represent the wisdom of our race.”
— Stanley Kunitz

36. “Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.”
— Alexander Pope

37. “Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.”
— Joseph Addison

38. “So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”
— Peter Drucker

39. “Adventure is just bad planning.”
— Roald Amundsen

40. “No one is ever satisfied with his fortune or dissatisfied with his understanding.”
— Antoinette Deshoulieres

41. “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.”
— Victor Hugo

42. “Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.”
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

43. “A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.”
— Frank McKinney Hubbard

44. “I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.”
— John D. Rockefeller

45. “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end, requires some of the same courag …”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

46. “He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not.”
— English Proverb

47. “The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources…. They enlarge his capacity for self-knowledge and expand his opportunities for self-improvement…. They are the wellsprings of a free society.”
— A. Whitney Griswold

48. “Make your plans as fantastic as you like, because 25 years from now, they will seem mediocre. Make your plans ten times as great as you first planned, and 25 years from now you will wonder why you did not make them 50 times as great.”
— Henry Curtis

49. “He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.”
— Johann Lavater

50. “Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.”
— Lance Morrow

51. “The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.”
— Lady Nancy Astor