"The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good."

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"The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good."

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"Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it."

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"I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego."

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"I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining."

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"The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has."

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"Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages."

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"Not everything is about you.In fact, most things aren't.What a relief, right?"

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"I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section."

Business

"If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was."

Government

"I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful."

People

"When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice."

Business

"Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist."

Being

"Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity."

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"I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way."

Environment

"Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist."

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"People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia."

People

"It's easy to write a good column if you've got good information. It's hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose there are people who can get away with styling on a regular basis. I'm not one of them. You're probably not, either."

People