Billionaires Quote by William Finnegan Download Open image “For billionaires who cannot buy good press, there is the option of buying the press.” — William Finnegan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Billionaires Buy Buying Cannot Good Option Press Who
The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The media, like anything else, can be bought. Everything, it seems, has its price. Even the free press.” — Lance Morcan Copy Share Image
The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster. — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money - sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I really don't want to in the press, genuinely don't want to be in the press. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of… — Roberto Cavalli Copy Share Image
The differences between the received wisdom, the standard version of events, and the facts on the ground may be subtle or they may be… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
Writing is pretty flexible work, don't you think? If you want to surf, you just have to get a lot done when the waves… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
You're after something - not a story, but a certain, exquisitely intense encounter with beauty - and the only way to find it is… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
“When I finally came in and complained, she tried to explain, not for the first time, how exquisitely boring it was to watch surfing.… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
It's completely different, for instance, to report on poor farmers in Africa than it is to report on, say, poor African-Americans. The familiarity of… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
“Surfing, to begin with, was not a “sport.” It was a “path.” And the more you poured into it, the more you got back… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
“I later spent a year studying Finnegans Wake with Norman O. Brown, an exercise in masturbatory obscurantism that Bryan would never have undertaken—and he… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
Poor-country surf communities can be complex and, to some extent, leveling. The fisherman's kid is competing head to head with the plutocrat's gilded son.… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
I need to conduct myself differently in different communities. In my experience, the journalistic conventions - you know, I'm the reporter, you're the subject,… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
There are good waves not that far from Manhattan - on Long Island, in north Jersey. It's true that the best surf around here… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
I'm trying to find out what's actually true, which is nearly always something, if not a world of things, that you can't read in… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
I remember surfing in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, even Madeira, when local fishermen had never seen a surfboard before, and refused to believe that we… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
The right wing has an ecosystem that is funded by billionaires who want tax cuts. — Cenk Uygur Copy Share Image
If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom and morality and humanity. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret… — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires. — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires. — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Some billionaires like cars, yachts and private jets. Others like newspapers. — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
The millionaires and billionaires who chose to invest in Australia are actually those who most help the poor and our young. This secret needs… — Gina Rinehart Copy Share Image
Let's restore sanity and fairness to the tax cut conversation. We simply cannot afford to hand over the bank vault to our nation's millionaires… — Paul Tonko Copy Share Image
“He’d had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses—ever makes it… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image