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

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

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.

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.

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

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