Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Will customers keep supporting the enormous overhead required to sustain ineffectual, unproductive stock picking across an array of thousands of individual funds devoted to every investing 'style' and economic sector or regional subgroup that some marketing idiot can dream up? Not likely. A brutal shakeout is coming and one of its revelations will be that stock picking is a grossly overrated piece of the puzzle, that cost control is what distinguishes a competitive firm from an uncompetitive one.
-- Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

#Dream #Style #Marketing
The law is a crude machine at best, and only spits out something approaching justice of its attendants are committed to justice. As lawyering has become less about doing right and more about doing what you can get away with, our standards of acceptable shenanigans-as-usual seem to be in a free fall.
-- Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

#Fall #Law #Justice
Certain countries long ago succeeded where the U.S. has failed in commercializing their air traffic control systems, putting them in the hands of private or quasi-private operators able to raise capital, charge fees, and invest in growth, free of meddling by congressional pork barons. You want a drone-friendly air traffic control system? This is the place to start. Our FAA isn't blindly anti-drone but simply marooned in a system that still needs thousands of eyeballs gazing at radar terminals and out of cockpit windshields.
-- Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

#Country #Air #Long Ago

One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.
The love she left behind will be the reason dreams are reached. She was the rock in a world that was crumbling. Her strength will remain. Itâ€™s in our hearts.
Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.
Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.
We have reached a strange new place in marketing when tweets become full-page print ads,
If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program. If you CAN'T then all the advertising, fancy packaging, sales promotion and public relations in the world won't help you achieve your objective.
War and marketing have many similarities.

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. famous quotes

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