Henry R. Luce Quotes

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

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