Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.
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Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
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It is hard news that catches readers. Features hold them.
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Never lose your sense of the superficial.
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It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.
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When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.
-- Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
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No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.
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I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.
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While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media,
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We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die." Mara
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Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions
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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
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In Europe, a product must be good, or it will not sell in competition with other products; with you, it is enough to say that it is good, often enough and sufficiently loudly. The keenest competition is not in the making of things but in the advertising of them!
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I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising.
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