His first job, in a general trading firm in Warsaw, involved him writing letters in Yiddish about the price of dry goods, but alongside this he knew a charmed existence close to nature in the wilds of north-eastern Poland, hunting or just tracking a legendary variety of game.

ECONOMIST: Memoirs

Forbes was well established as a financial newspaperman who wanted to go beyond the dry numbers that were the stock in trade of his contemporaries' writing.

FORBES: The Inaugurative Forbes Magazine