It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write. — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers. — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
To see life. To see the world. To watch the faces of the poor, and the gestures of the proud. To see strange things.… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
Journalism is the art of collecting varying kinds of information (commonly called news) which a few people possess and of transmitting it to a… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession. — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write. — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
I urge each of you to think seriously about the vision Dr. Daniel puts forth and think about what you can do to make… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
“ became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.” — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions. — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
