Malcolm Forbes

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

I have never been in a situation where having money made it worse.

Cocaine is God’s way of saying you’re making too much money.

To make a million, start with $900,000.

Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren’t trying to change the world. That’s what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I’ve known in my life. That’s just the truth.

Money gives me the creeps and mildly embarrasses me. I get paid too much anyway.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

I don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day.

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

The point is, you can never be too greedy.

A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money.

The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.

Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer