Columns Quote by Allan Sloan Download Open image “Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.” — Allan Sloan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Columns Constant Gold Mediocrity
I don't even look at gold as gold anymore. Gold is just another piece of paper. — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
To prefer paper to gold is to prefer high risk to lower risk, instability to stability, inflation to steady long term values, a system… — William E. Rees Copy Share Image
Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's not optional;… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor. — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful… — Allan Sloan Copy Share Image
People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia. — Allan Sloan Copy Share Image
If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult… — Allan Sloan Copy Share Image
It's easy to write a good column if you've got good information. It's hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose… — Allan Sloan Copy Share Image
When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could… — Allan Sloan Copy Share Image
I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair… — Allan Sloan Copy Share Image
The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't… — Allan Sloan Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column,… — Allan Sloan Copy Share Image
I don't tolerate whining, I look at people & say 'you're a victim, it's not your fault' figure our how to survive! — Allan Sloan Copy Share Image
The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes… — Allan Sloan Copy Share Image
I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way. — Allan Sloan Copy Share Image
I think the most important way to understand play is that it's this property that's in things. Like there's play in a mechanism. For… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves… — Holly Johnson Copy Share Image
Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column. — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the… — Slobodan Milosević Copy Share Image
The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns,… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
It's nice to know that if you've worked really hard at something, it gets recognised with a tick in the success column - however… — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Probably also due to the political situation getting just worse and more extreme, but also this distance and this sadness of this feeling that… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence… If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities of other people I think we must imitate the Totalitarians and organize some kind of fifth column activity! If better ideas on mental health are to progress and spread we, as the salesmen, must lose… — John Rawlings Rees Copy Share