Anyone Quote by Barry Ritholtz Download Open image “Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.” — Barry Ritholtz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anyone Article Keeping Lean Longer Make Skill Tight
Articles themselves are condensed to narrow columns of text across 5, 6, 7 pages, and ads that are really distracting for the reader, so… — Mike McCue Copy Share Image
I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
That awkward moment When you are busy writing a rather long but important article and you start approaching the word limit of your device. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“A blog post is like a miniskirt … it needs to be long enough to cover the essentials but short enough to keep it… — Joe Pulizzi Copy Share Image
I like getting 'Times' articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words. — Hannibal Buress Copy Share Image
I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives. — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
“The writer's object should be to hold the reader's attention. I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
Training is practice doing a new task much more slowly than an expert would do it. — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
“Like so many others of my tenure and temperament—stubborn ancients, I suppose—web reporting is anathema to everything I love about newspapering: getting a tip,… — Chris Rose Copy Share Image
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those… — Marie Avgeropoulos Copy Share Image
Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
As a new mother, you're so vulnerable and make mistakes all the time. I guess there's more pressure when you're in the public eye,… — Jessica Marais Copy Share Image
I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography. — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing,… — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
Don't compare your career to anyone else's. It's tough when you're in a business that's competitive. I was having a difficult time with that… — Danielle Brooks Copy Share Image
The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
I haven't talked to any young artists for a long time. But if we did sit down, I'd definitely tell them my viewpoint. If… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
