It’s easy to write a good column if you’ve got good information. It’s hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose there are people who can get away with styling on a regular basis. I’m not one of them. You’re probably not, either. Allan Sloan Read Quote
Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity. Allan Sloan Read Quote
I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way. Allan Sloan Read Quote
I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn’t give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section. Allan Sloan Read Quote
Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don’t stop being a reporter because you’ve become a columnist. Allan Sloan Read Quote
I’ve spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what’s going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful. Allan Sloan Read Quote
People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it’s really over trivia. Allan Sloan Read Quote
If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won’t find something? I suspect there’s not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart’s ImClone trading was. Allan Sloan Read Quote
The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don’t say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she’d be OK. Allan Sloan Read Quote
