William Randolph Hearst Quotes

News is what people don't want you to print. Everything thing else is ads.

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

You can crush a man with journalism.

I do not think that any man should be attacked because of his race or religion, or that he should be immune from attack because of race or religion.

All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.

The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press.

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.

It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't be here.

My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.

Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.

If you make a product good enough... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you would better construct a highway. Advertising is that highway.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

If you ask, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The answer is, "You are.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.

You must keep your mind on the objective, not on the obstacle.

Users of marijuana become STIMULATED as they inhale the drug and are LIKELY TO DO ANYTHING. Most crimes of violence in this section, especially in country districts are laid to users of that drug.

In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.

Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.