Top 27 Henry Luce Quotes
#1. As a proponent of big-picture analysis, media pioneer and Time founder Henry Luce asserted, there was more money to be made in slow news than fast news.
David Halberstam
#2. Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.
Henry R. Luce
#3. I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.
Henry R. Luce
#4. O flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river Linger to kiss thy feet! O flower of song, bloom on, and make forever The world more fair and sweet.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#5. There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.
Ellen Hopkins
#6. Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.
Henry R. Luce
#7. Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics.
David Halberstam
#8. 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
#9. Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
Chinua Achebe
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.
Bill Gates
#13. If by fawning, you mean he's a deer, I have a gun, and it's hunting season, then I guess you're right.
Sage Kafsky
#14. Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
Henry R. Luce
#15. 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
#16. A missionary deals with all the important people of the community, but he is never really one of them.
Henry R. Luce
#17. To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.
Henry R. Luce
#18. 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
#20. Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: Tell the history of our time through the people who make it.
Walter Isaacson
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. [On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.
Clare Boothe Luce
#25. The author writes that the central conflict within journalist and seller of the American way Henry Luce was between his curiosity and his certitude.
David Halberstam
#26. 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
#27. 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
