Herbert Swope Quotes & Sayings

Well, she thought, I'm certainly bright. She had wanted to meet a new boy and when she finally did meet one she didn't even find out his name — Beverly Cleary

It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts. — Herbert Bayard Swope

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. — Herbert Bayard Swope

The mark, to me, of a constructive argument is one that looks at a specific problem and says, 'What shall we do about this?' And a nonconstructive one is one that tries to label people. — Gloria Steinem

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody. — Herbert Bayard Swope

Although Herbert Hoover in many ways prefigured him, it was Franklin D. Roosevelt who first tried to create an explicit corporate state in America with his National Recovery Administration (NRA). With its fascist-style Blue Eagle emblem, the NRA coordinated big business and labor in a central plan, and outlawed competition. The NRA even employed vigilante groups to spy on smaller businesses and report if they violated the plan. Just as in Mussolini's Italy, the beneficiaries of the U.S. corporate state were - in addition to the government itself - established economic interest groups. NRA cheerleaders included the National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Bar Association, the United Mine Workers, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and - above all - Gerard Swope of General Electric, who helped draft the NRA act. Only — Ludwig Von Mises

Sometimes I have to remind myself, that on my worst day I live like somebody on their greatest — Meek Mill

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair. — Herbert Bayard Swope

The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States. — Adam Fletcher

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one. — Herbert Bayard Swope

People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.' — Robert Teeter

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not. — Herbert Bayard Swope

Formula for failure: Try to please everybody. — Herbert Bayard Swope

It is necessary for the mind to become free of the illusions of this world and become a fine and marvelous instrument of the Inner Being. — Samael Aun Weor