It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.

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 degree an American century.

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

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 or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.

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 larger number of people who are supposed to desire to share it.

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.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.