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Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.


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MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES Failure is success if we learn from it.
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MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.
B. C. FORBES Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.
B. C. FORBES Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
B. C. FORBES Presence is more than just being there.
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues in...
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES To measure the man, measure his heart.
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of gr...
B. C. FORBES Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES