Henry R. Luce famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.
-- Henry R. Luce

#Discovery #Poet #Easier
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
-- Henry R. Luce

#Business #Exercise #Occupation
I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.
-- Henry R. Luce

#Heart #World #Journalist
Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.
-- Henry R. Luce

#Enemy #Should
Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.
-- Henry R. Luce

#Men #Illusion #Claims
Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
-- Henry R. Luce

#Journalism #Publishing #Profession
It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.
-- Henry R. Luce

#Writing #Editing #Balance
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.
-- Henry R. Luce

#Reading #Past #Defense
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.
-- Henry R. Luce

#Want #Journalism #Tradition
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.
-- Henry R. Luce

#Degrees #Vigor #World
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.
-- Henry R. Luce

#Art #Numbers #People
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.
-- Henry R. Luce

#Epic #Triviality #Should
To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.
-- Henry R. Luce

#Missions #Shows
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.
-- Henry R. Luce

#Writing #Men #Balance
I urge each of you to think seriously about the vision Dr. Daniel puts forth and think about what you can do to make it happen.
-- Henry R. Luce

#Thinking #Vision #Drs

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