Malcolm Forbes Quotes


What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.


Citations

Forbes, Malcolm. "Fact and Comment." Forbes, Forbes Inc., 1975.

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  • Born: August 19, 1919
  • Died: February 24, 1990
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Publisher, Businessman

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes was an American entrepreneur most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, founded by his father B. C. Forbes. He was known as an avid promoter of capitalism and free market, and for an extravagant lifestyle, spending on parties, travel, and his collection of homes, yachts, aircraft, art, motorcycles, and Fabergé eggs.