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
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
I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.
– Henry R. Luce
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
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
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
Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
– Henry R. Luce
Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.
– Henry R. Luce
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
Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.
– Henry R. Luce
To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.