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Quotes by Publisher

"As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!"

"For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs."

"Just because I publish pornography does not mean that I am not concerned about the social ills that all of us are."


"If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route."

"A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot."

"Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service."

"I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak."

"Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite."


"You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do."

"Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts."


"If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it."

"A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage."

"If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be."
Will,


"To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death."

"Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality."

"A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it."

"What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples."

"Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself."

"I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together."

"I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy."


"Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic."

"He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one."


"Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful."

"Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests."

"Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted."

"In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all."

"I'd like to see an arrested growth of development. You can't stop it, but it's important we do something about the developers having the upper hand."

"If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time."
Time,

"Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight."
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