Quote #12

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

More from Malcolm Forbes

  1. Failure is success if we learn from it.
  2. How to succeed? Try hard enough.
  3. Executives who get there and stay suggest solutions when they present the problems.
  4. If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. Wh…
  5. Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
  6. If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
  7. Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
  8. If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.

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