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.

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.

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.

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.

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.