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Forbes India 13th Anniversary: Rewind of Key Milestones of India's Corporates and Startups

A rewind of the key milestones in India's corporates and startups, through the lens of 13 years of Forbes India

Being Forbes: Why it is much more than a prestigious media brand

The hallmark of a lasting institution is its ability to change with the times and Brand Forbes has done so with passion and fervour

The class of 1917: Others born in the same year as Forbes

From JFK to the Soviets, the people, places and companies born the same year as Forbes

Birth of the Forbes 400

You think making the first million is hard? Try making your first millionaires list

America's Top 50 Companies (1917-2017)

A century of creative destruction

The original Forbes rich list

In 1918, the magazine ranked America's wealthiest individuals, including industrialists, bankers, farmers—and one millionaire soldier

100 years of Forbes: Hits and flops

When you are the drama critic of business, sometimes you get it right and sometimes you don't. Here are some of the highlights and low points of the magazine's coverage

100 years of Forbes: Survivors' gilt

If you had invested $1,000 in the top 100 US companies from 1917, you—and your grandkids—would have profited handsomely

More ups and downs: How the stock market reacted to major world events

Count on one thing: The stock market always manages to muscle higher, through 18 presidents, a handful of wars and several major economic crises

Swindlers list: A century of fakers, fraudsters and rogues

100 years of Forbes: From Bernie Cornfeld to Bernie Madoff, some of whom Forbes never saw coming

Forever young: A selection of under-30 world-changers since 1917

The story of youthful entrepreneurs is older than Forbes itself

Forbes @ 100: Don't mess with taxes

William Baldwin on a century of income tax, one of the economy's most ironic job creators

Forbes @ 100: The shell game

For more than 50 years, Fabergé was nearly synonymous with Forbes. A story of eggs, empires and enthusiasm

Trump: The early tweets (1982-2000)

Recasting Donald Trump's early correspondence with the magazine into social media

Forbes @ 100: The Poetry of Jim Michaels

What makes Forbes journalism work? Let the 'Bard of Business' explain

Forbes @ 100: Postcards from the Past

A selection of dispatches from great American boomtowns

Life as a party: Malcolm Forbes and his guilty pleasures

How Malcolm Forbes turned his passion for balloons, boats, motorcycles and other objects of desire into more than he dreamt

Forbes @ 100: Bond of brothers

Wallace Forbes, the youngest son of the magazine's founder, recalls the early days of the business and working with his siblings

Our first 100 years: Steve Forbes

Laughing matters: Forbes and its wonderful sense of humour

Christopher Buckley on the magazine's history of rich humour—and poor jokes

Forbes @ 100: How the brand's logo changed over a century

Forbes logo's evolution, annotated by a typography legend

100 greatest living business minds: Lessons and ideas

Trump: The art of the spiel

Donald Trump hasn't just been a subject in Forbes—for many years he also advertised in the pages of the magazine, never letting the facts get in the way of a good sales pitch

The sun never sets on Forbes

A roundup of brand's international edition

Rhymes with 'Forbes'

No other magazine has found its way into more songs

Here's how the first-ever Forbes magazine issue looked like!

Forbes @ 100: Thoughts from its readers

Fake Newsstand: Fictional Forbes covers from Hollywood

Tony Stark, Bruce Wayne and other fictional Forbes covers from Hollywood