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Forbes has a rating of 3.2 stars from 115 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Forbes most frequently mention stewart pinkerton. Forbes ranks 4th among Business News sites.

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Top Positive Review

“Have an interest in business”

Arie v.
1/3/24

Used to having a big interest to the business world and didn't hesitate acquiring forbes magazines to stay tuned. I always liked reading their magazines, cause there are many successful stories of different worldwide entrepeneurs. Other than that, forbes is considered to be the highest social media about financial. So, I'm a satisfied reader, fortunately, nowadays everything's digital.

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“Extremely biased, irrational views.”

Cat S.
5/7/19

As a non communist, I'm not interested in reading political magazines that stand for communist dictatorship and oppression of people. This magazine clearly favours russian politics, why, I couldnt tell you. It wishes for people to have less freedom?

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Netherlands
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January 3rd, 2024

Used to having a big interest to the business world and didn't hesitate acquiring forbes magazines to stay tuned.
I always liked reading their magazines, cause there are many successful stories of different worldwide entrepeneurs. Other than that, forbes is considered to be the highest social media about financial.
So, I'm a satisfied reader, fortunately, nowadays everything's digital.

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Rhode Island
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June 10th, 2015

While the content of this site may be good, super opinionated but good, it os by far the worst site I have ever used on my phone. Just wanted to look at the pictures for a 1 through 10 ranking and it took over 10 minutes. Every time I got through 3 an add would pop up and put me back 2 pages. Load if crap in a smart phone era.

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Florida
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April 14th, 2016

In an article about car Forbes posted a link with the heading Chevrolet Impala Convertible.
Such a car does not exist. As a company that sets itself above others for integrity, this speaks volumes about their lack of it. They must have had a powerful reason to sacrifice their integrity to lie about a made up car. Probably a little click money. How very typical!

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Illinois
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April 22nd, 2015

As we all nurse the hangover from an era of financial excess, it's important to remember what a big part the business media played in the whole affair - and during the boom years on Wall Street no publication was more important than Forbes magazine. But Forbes fell apart for many of the same reasons as other institutions: because greed and hubris proved to be more powerful forces than the principled pursuit of excellence. Stewart Pinkerton, who was the magazine's managing editor for many years, gives us the inside story of the decline and fall of Forbes--and at the same time offers a salutary tale of what can happen when the infatuation with digital media erodes the kind of quality journalism that Forbes once upheld.

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California
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June 25th, 2019

I have read Forbes during the past years, and they always have feature stories or pieces on important subjects. More recently I read about the top 5 financial reports that a business should run. Great insights as to how you should run your business.

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Georgia
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July 23rd, 2021

The quality of writing on Forbes decreased over the past few years. The website layout still looks like a jigsaw puzzle. The actual print magazine is better to read. They do sometimes write bias-based articles. Regardless, they just need to improve their writing and get better editors to look over the articles before publishing them.

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New York
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April 29th, 2016

I love the site bu the fact that they make you go through a redirect if you have ad blocker on is really annoying and I hate it. Please get rid of it. Other than that the site gives solid info. Thanks.

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Washington
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April 22nd, 2019

I tend to forget that forbes.com is an ad slave website and I return because the title of an article entices me to visit again. I won't be making that mistake anymore after today.

Who needs to be bombarded with video ads, pop ups and generally get harassed with ads? Not me. See ya, forbes.com.

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Illinois
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February 1st, 2024

Forbes articles are not truthful, if they don't like someone they will continue to lie about that person. I found at least 7 that were not truthful, will never again

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California
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April 22nd, 2015

When it comes to speed and convenience, there is no better way to read Forbes magazine. With almost no advertisements and minimal pictures, you just get the articles in a very concise and easy to read format. With wireless delivery, you get the magazine delivered to your Kindle, no matter where you are, as soon as it comes out.

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Texas
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May 5th, 2015

Forbes used to be an important source of business and finance insights... but its become increasingly trivial, unreliable, and irrelevant." David McClintick

Author Stewart Pinkerton spent 20 years as a writer and editor at 'Forbes.' His book purports to tell how Malcomb Forbes and his sons (mostly Steve) lost most of its financial assets through immense personal expenses and Steve's ($75 million) quixotic and bumbling presidential campaigns, combined with poor business decisions/leadership. Unfortunately, Pinkerton accomplishes his goal only to a limited extent - probably largely due to the Forbes empire having been a non-public entity until recently.

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April 24th, 2017

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Texas
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January 13th, 2021

I like Forbes. I think they have been honest and fair... until this week. You have decided to "play God" with people's lives: people who thought they were doing a good job with the job they had been awarded; people who actually have integrity, intelligence and the ability to move forward in the face of incredible distress and pressure. Wouldn't you WANT people like that in your company? I guess the Forbes Magazine editor has decided that just because you have worked in a position where the "company" has tanked, you no longer merit consideration for you future. This is the most short sighted and vindictive thing I've ever seen come out of Forbes. I'm incredibly disappointed in an organization to which I previously gave credit. You might want to rethink your position and invest in a different editor.

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Forbes was good until this week.

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Czechia
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March 16th, 2016

They have this pop-up page whenever you go to them from a different resource and you have to wait until reading the article. This is really uncomfotable. I came to read the article, not wait 5 sec until you show an add or whatever

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Georgia
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January 14th, 2023

If you do not mind constant emails that you ask to be unsubscribed from and constant pop ups about surveys and newsletters, this online magazine/news/etc. Would be great. However if you would like to read a single article without being interupted by a pop up of some kind, do not buy this subscription. You cannot get a response from their tech about anything.

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Texas
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February 26th, 2015

Having spent four highly formative years at Forbes in the early to mid-1980s, I immediately bought this book on my Kindle and then couldn't put it down. I read The Fall of the House of Forbes from start to finish in a single day. Stewart Pinkerton, an insider who lost his job in one of numerous downsizings, does a terrific job bringing to life many of the vivid characters...

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France
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October 8th, 2015

About a year ago i decided to get into the business sphere. I was simply curious about that whole deal and, having some free time on my schedule i started reading Forbes. Very interesting, loving it.

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Texas
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August 7th, 2019

I have spent five minutes trying to leave a review on Forbes for a hotel it keeps giving me its own crap how do I leave a review on Forbes for a hotel that is absolutely horrible do not go to the beach Lodge they will break in your room still your property call the police on you afterwards and have you arrested if you don't get sick from their food first

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Arizona
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June 20th, 2020

I've read reviews sayimg this magazine lacks honesty. My complaint is of a different nature. The article that I take umbrage with was written about the made up "Top Ten Reasons People Use not to Wear a Mask." They were all relatively silly, trying to give the impression that the persons were being friolous. None of this "top ten" included a very valid reason for not waring a mask, wbich is heart or lung disease. It would be nice if the article hadn't been so biased that they couldn't even come up with one reason that is valid. I'm disgusted with this magazine.

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Kansas
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January 5th, 2022

I personally do not enjoy that people who aren't subscribed have a limited number of times that they can look at an article. I would rate it higher if i could see more articles.

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New York
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April 22nd, 2016

For this reason alone, i rate forbes a 1/5, though in reality it doesn't deserve any points as it is essentially a broken website that does not allow me to view it.

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California
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May 1st, 2020

I am SO sick of sites that block you out completely with giant pop up that block the entire site unless you turn your adblock off. NO, I will NOT turn my adblock off, I will just go to another site that doesn't block me out completely for using adblock!

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Arizona
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May 28th, 2020

I read Forbes more than I would like to because they often cover topics of interest for me, namely regarding the stock market.
But they provide factually false information and as "investing experts" they know that they're providing false information.
For instance, they constatly trash Roth IRAs versus traditional IRAs because "paying taxes beforehand will make you earn less compared to someone whom only pay taxes afterwards whom have a big headstart". It may be counter intuitive but it's entirely false. Let me prove it to you. Let's say taxes are 15%, you invest $1000 and will double your gain over time.
By paying taxes beforehand, you only invest $850 after taxes, which will double, so that's $1700.
If you pay taxes later, you invest $1000 and it doubles afterwards so that's $2000. Now you take off 15% taxes so that's $300 off, leaving you $1700.
As you can see with this example, Forbes tends to push false narratives that can be mathematically proven false. Is there a conflict of interest, is content sponsored to push a narrative, are the journalists letting their own beliefs take over what's actually true? I don't know but don't trust what they say.

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Pakistan
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April 24th, 2018

I wish I would have thought of it first. This is simply unbelievable! Great job, I will definitely be ordering again! I like Forbes more and more each day because it makes my life a lot easier.

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Georgia
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April 4th, 2016

I'm just studying business, but I sincerely hope to set up a business one day. Forbes gives a great overview of everything that happens in a business world and contains many practical tips.

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