Malcolm Forbes Quotations | Page 2

How to get taken: Spend most of your time making sure you're not.

All too often we say of a man doing a good job that he is indispensable. A flattering canard, as so many disillusioned and retired and fired have discovered when the world seems to keep on turning without them. In business, a man can come nearest to indispensability by being dispensable in his current job. How can a man move up to new responsibilities if he is the only one able to handle his present tasks? It matters not how small or large the job you now have, if you have trained no one to do it as well, you're not available; you've made your promotion difficult if not impossible.

Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.

Give naught, get same. Give much, get same.

Advice: It's more fun to give than to receive.

A winner must first know what losing's like.

It doesn't take much of a rule to measure a mean man.

If you can read and don't, you're dumb.

Accepting blame when it's not really due sometimes makes the point better.

When it's your own fault, things hurt worse than when someone else is to blame.