Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe quotes
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“News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.”
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“Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.”
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“It is hard news that catches readers. Features hold them.”
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“Never lose your sense of the superficial.”
-- Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe -
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“It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.”
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“When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.”
-- Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
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Source : Joe Vitale (2010). “The Awakening Course: The Secret to Solving All Problems”, p.29, John Wiley & Sons
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“Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions”
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“Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.”
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Source : Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.176, A&C Black
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“I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising.”
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