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.

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

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.

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

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.