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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

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.