Kaitie Forbes Quotes

Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact ... In Indianapolis they have come up with a most sensible, affordable approach to the problem. Policemen are assigned their police patrol cars for personal use after hours. They are encouraged to use the police car while taking the family shopping, to the movies, and everywhere one takes one's family. As a result, says the Police Chief's assistant, we may have as many as 400 cars on the street instead of 100 or so per shift. [And] the presence of the police car obviously indicates the proximity of policemen. ~ Malcolm Forbes

Happiness is normally the prime search of every rational human being. One way to derive increasing happiness during the year we have just entered is to strive diligently to promote the happiness of others, to think of them first, yourself second. Happiness is the greatest tonic, the greatest elixir, of all. Worry is among the worst poisons. One sensible New Year resolution: I will do my utmost to have consideration for others, to exercise usefulness, to radiate happiness, to conquer worrying over things I cannot possibly remedy. ~ B.C. Forbes

I've never had a plan. You look for different actors you want to work with or different subjects you want to explore, or sometimes it's just a momentary fancy. ~ Michelle Forbes

The man who is bigger than his job keeps cool. He does not lose his head, he refuses to become rattled, to fly off in a temper. The man who would control others must be able to control himself. There is something admirable, something inspiring, something soul-stirring about a man who displays coolness and courage under extremely trying circumstances. A good temper is not only a business asset. It is the secret of health. The longer you live, the more you will learn that a disordered temper breeds a disordered body. ~ B.C. Forbes

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life. ~ B.C. Forbes

People without independence have no business to meddle with science. It should never be linked with lucre. ~ Edward Forbes

Grudges are often worse enemies than pain. ~ Erin Forbes

You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers. ~ John Forbes Nash, Jr.

You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous. ~ Malcolm Forbes

A big cigar in a young face requires the best of both. ~ Malcolm Forbes

Are your desires purely selfish? Do your tastes run to a grand home, automobiles, fine clothes, an abundance of amusements, and so forth? If so, look around you at people who have such things in superabundance. Are they any happier, do you think, than you are? Are they any better morally? Are they any stronger physically? Are they better liked by their friends than you are by your friends? ... Carnegie said, Millionaires rarely smile. This is substantially true. ~ B.C. Forbes

I'd like to think I'm an actor who leaves things at work. ~ Michelle Forbes

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs. ~ B.C. Forbes

Unconsciously I had discovered the commentator's secret weapon-that so long as you can wield words, it isn't necessary to know what you're talking about. ~ Malcolm Forbes

Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned. ~ Malcolm Forbes

If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch. ~ Malcolm Forbes

As a young man he seemed to pine for a bygone world of aristocrats. [In his twenties, he] took to wearing Edwardian three-piece suits with a pocket watch and chain.

[discussing Kip Forbes] ~ Benjamin Wallace

The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action. ~ B.C. Forbes

They were full of suspicion and wonder, which I had grown to recognize as two very dangerous things. ~ Erin Forbes

If the deal isn't good for the other party, it isn't good for you. ~ B.C. Forbes

With all thy getting, get understanding, is the banner under which these Forbes editorials have appeared since the first issue of the publication. We have no illusions about what great wealth can do and what it cannot do. We believe in the worthwhileness of striving by all worthy means to attain success and to attain wealth. Simply because we are convinced that no amount of money is worth the sacrifice of one's better instincts, of one's self-respect-of one's soul, if you wish-simply because we are convinced that riches not gained legitimately and decently are not worth having ... ~ B.C. Forbes

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill ... we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up. ~ Esther Forbes

A hug's a happy thing while a shrug's so often destructive. ~ Malcolm Forbes

There is no "right" way--only the way that is put before you. ~ Jake T. Forbes

Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must return from Washington after 24 months. ~ Malcolm Forbes

People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke. ~ Malcolm Forbes

It was sink or swim for him - and happens he's swimming. ~ Esther Forbes

A good life is never lived without a bit of risk, and this battle is well worth every one. ~ Erin Forbes

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving. ~ B.C. Forbes

The people I know who suffer from mental illness, sometimes they do connect you to what it is to be really human. There's a vulnerability there, there's something very potent. ~ Maya Forbes

In old age the secret springs of human nature are apt to come out. ~ Esther Forbes

Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident. ~ B.C. Forbes

History is simply the stories we inherit. ~ Leslie Forbes

As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting corners grew exponentially. Power breeds corruption. ~ Steve Forbes

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all. ~ Malcolm Forbes

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism ... Resist growing up! ~ B.C. Forbes

Forbes did, in fact, break new ground for women...She was an irrepressible and independent traveler who took risky and difficult trips, braved the hostility of the colonial officials and bureaucrats of the British empire, and invaded the male sphere of exploration, using charm, chutzpah--and her extensive network of establishment connections--to get where she wanted to go. (From the Sahara to Samarkand: Selected Travel Writings of Rosita Forbes, 1919-1937) ~ Margaret Bald

with offense - a high- bosomed matron opposite emitted ~ Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

Happiness without Guilt. ~ Mary M. Forbes

A book without words is a mind without thought. ~ Catherine Forbes

Failure is success if you learn from it. ~ Malcolm S. Forbes

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives. ~ John Forbes Nash, Jr.

There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make. ~ Malcolm Forbes