Malcolm Forbes Quotes

I was talking to a businessman, and I said, Don't you think most men are little boys? And he said, I'm no little boy! I make seventy-five thousand dollars a year. And I said, Well, the way I look at it - you just have bigger toys.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. I recently did an on-line test called 'What's Your True Age?' My result was 50-60 years old.

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.

It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does.

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one.

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

I don't think you understand what a job really is when you're a teenager.

You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

I think the word is adult!

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

I grew up hardcore. I learned to be more responsible - and fiscally responsible - you know, I just wanna be a kid again! Do a musical, have tons of time or something.

The difference between a human being ten years of age and one fifty years of age lies altogether in the matter of toys.

I have met a lot of guys in their 40s who have the maturity of a 15 - year-old and men in their 20s who have older sensibilities. They just need to live in their own apartment. That's kind of a deal breaker.

Maturity does not always come with age; sometimes age comes alone.

Act your age, not your shoe size.

Can you remember when you didn't want to sleep? Isn't it inconceivable? I guess the definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.