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

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

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 journalism ably practiced in our time.

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.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

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.