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.

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

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

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.

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.

To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.

Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.