“When the joy of the job's gone, when it's no fun trying anymore, quit before you're fired.” TryingJobsJoyFunWorkGoneQuitting Author:Malcolm Forbes
“When those with ability at their job get to thinking they can't be done without, they're already on their way out.” ThinkingWayDoneJobsWorkAbility Author:Malcolm Forbes
“All too often we say of a man doing a good job that he is indispensable. A flattering canard, as so many disillusioned and retired and fired have discovered when the world seems to keep on turning without them. In business, a man can come nearest to indispensability by being dispensable in his current job. How can a man move up to new responsibilities if he is the only one able to handle his present tasks? It matters not how small or large the job you now have, if you have trained no one to do it as well, you're not available; you've made your promotion difficult if not impossible.” IfsMenWorldWellsMadeMatterSeemsAbleJobsMovingDifficultResponsibilityImpossibleTasksCurrentsAvailableHandleIndispensableGood JobPromotionRetiredFlatteringDisillusionedDispensable Author:Malcolm Forbes
“I don't think anybody can be a success who doesn't like what they do. [But it's] no job if it has no challenge; there's nothing to it if there are no problems. The essential thing is liking what you're doing.” IfsThinkingProblemJobsChallengesEssentialsCongratulationsNo Problem Author:Malcolm Forbes
“I hope a start at getting some oil out of the enormous Alaska field isn't indefinitely mired in a bureaucratic morass as a result of our national concern for the ecology. This concern must not be so misguided, misdirected, misused that it serves to stop economic growth, to bankrupt companies, to stifle new development, new jobs, new horizons. In fighting new pollution and stemming present pollution, exciting, sometimes costly means and methods exist and others will evolve. But blanket legislative naysaying to expanding power and energy sources is stupid, self-defeating.” MeanSelfSometimesJobsFightingEnergyGrowthNatureResultsCompanyEconomicStupidFieldsSourceDevelopmentConcernExcitingMethodOilEnormousEvolveHorizonPollutionEcologyExpandingEconomic GrowthBlanketAlaskaMisguidedNew JobEnergy SourcesMisusedNew Horizons Author:Malcolm Forbes
“Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? Will federal and state laws be enacted with effective enforcement clauses? Will people be concerned long enough to pay the bill through higher prices? Will towns tole lost jobs when it proves too costly to clean obsolete plants?... I think so, but it sure won't be as easy as the present outcry and political oratory suggest. The answers to preserving a livable environment are not all simple, and some of the nuts now pushing simplistic cure-alls won't help bring about any lasting solutions.” PeopleThinkingLongStatesEnoughHelpingJobsLawPoliticalLostEasyNatureSimpleAnswersResultsPayEnvironmentHigherProveSolutionsConcernedTownsBillsCleanPlantCuresPushingMassiveLastingNutsPollutionEnforcementObsoleteClausesOratory Author:Malcolm Forbes
“If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.” IfsInspirationalFunnyJobsWorkBusinessCustomersPersistenceAggravation Author:Malcolm Forbes
“Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.” WritingJobsPerseveranceStuckPersistenceDiamondCoalJewelsGemsChunksHard Work Pays Off Author:Malcolm Forbes
