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and today run by his son Steve Forbes
.
Forbes was born in Brooklyn on August 19, 1919 to B. C. Forbes
and Adelaide Stevenson. He graduated from the Lawrenceville School
and Princeton University
.
After dabbling in politics, including service in the New Jersey Senate
from 1951 to 1957 and candidacy for Governor of New Jersey
, he committed to the magazine full time by 1957, three years after his father's death.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
By the time we've made it, we've had it.
Contrary to the cliché, genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it.
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
Executives who get there and stay suggest solutions when they present the problems.