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"Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity."
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"The only sin is mediocrity."
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"Mechanization best serves mediocrity."
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"We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless."
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"Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort."
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"Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best."
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"Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity."
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"I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity."
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"People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK."
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"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."
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"Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist."
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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."
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"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."
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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."
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"Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity."
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