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My Take
Malcolm Forbes fascinates me as the rare heir who outshined the institution he inherited. He took his father's magazine and made the Forbes name a global byword for wealth, then lived as flamboyantly as the fortunes he chronicled, ballooning, riding motorcycles, throwing legendary parties. Yet the Bronze Star and Purple Heart remind us he served with real courage before any of that. A Princeton man and New Jersey state senator, he could have played it safe and didn't. I admire people who treat life as something to be spent rather than hoarded, and Forbes seems to have spent his with magnificent abandon.
Overview
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (August 19, 1919 – February 24, 1990) was an American businessman and politician most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, which was founded by his father B. C. Forbes. He represented Somerset County in the New Jersey Senate from 1952 to 1958 and ran two campaigns for Governor of New Jersey. In 1953, he lost the Republican nomination to Paul L.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Malcolm Forbes
- Name (Japanese)
- マルコム・フォーブス
- Reading
- まるこむ・ふぉーぶす
- Born
- August 19, 1919 – February 24, 1990
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Goat
- Origin
- Englewood, New Jersey, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- publisher / politician / socialite / journalist / businessperson
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Princeton University
Awards & achievements
- Bronze Star Medal
- Purple Heart
- Harmon Trophy
- 2008 New Jersey Hall of Fame
- Pride of Performance
- Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of New Jersey
- 1989 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.