There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy. Joseph Pulitzer More Quotes by Joseph Pulitzer More Quotes From Joseph Pulitzer I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training Joseph Pulitzer intellectual character men They call me the father of illustrated journalism. What folly! I never thought any such thing. I had a small newspaper, which had been dead for years, and I was trying in every way to build up its circulation. What could I use for bait? A picture, of course. Joseph Pulitzer trying father years Write short - and they will read it. Write clearly - and they will understand it. Write graphically - and they will keep it in mind. Joseph Pulitzer A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself. Joseph Pulitzer will cynical time people Don't be sensitive if I should, in future, seem brusque, harsh, or even unjust in my criticism. I sincerely hope I never shall be; but if I should, remember that fault-finding is perhaps both my privilege and my weakness, that correction is the only road to improvement, and that my quick temper and illness are entitled to some consideration. Joseph Pulitzer road future hope remember It only serves to show what sort of person a man must be who can't even get testimonials. No, no; if a man brings references, it proves nothing; but if he can't, it proves a great deal. Joseph Pulitzer person nothing great man If a newspaper is to be of real service to the public, it must have a big circulation: first, because its news and its comments must reach the largest possible number of people; second, because circulation means advertising, and advertising means money, and money means independence. Joseph Pulitzer service news money people We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is wealth, with its corrupting, demoralizing influences. Let us never have a Government at Washington owing its retention to the power of the millionaires rather than to the will of millions. Joseph Pulitzer great poverty government power Performance is better than promise. Exuberant assurances are cheap. Joseph Pulitzer cheap performance better promise Principles, convictions and motives are neither sold nor bargained for! Joseph Pulitzer convictions motives nor principles It is to such men as Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson and Jackson and Franklin, all most lowly born, that we owe most of our greatness as a nation. Joseph Pulitzer nation born greatness men I breakfast when I get up, lunch when I get the chance. If I never get it, I forget it. Sometimes I dine at seven, sometimes at midnight, sometimes not at all; and I never get to bed until four or five in the morning. Everything depends on the news; the hours make no difference to me. Joseph Pulitzer me lunch morning breakfast I really think one of the most extraordinary things in the world is the amount of noise a child can make. Joseph Pulitzer things child think world If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind. Joseph Pulitzer memory moment you mind I can do much, I can do everything for a man who will be my friend. I can give him power; I can give him wealth. I can give him reputation - the power, the wealth, the reputation which come to a man who speaks to a million people a day in the columns of a great paper. Joseph Pulitzer day man power people The American people want something terse, forcible, picturesque, striking - something that will arrest their attention, enlist their sympathy, arouse their indignation, stimulate their imagination, convince their reason, awaken their conscience. Joseph Pulitzer imagination attention sympathy people What I say is that there are not half a dozen papers in the United States which tamper with the news, which publish what they know to be false. But if I thought I had done no better than that, I would be ashamed to own a paper. You have to make everyone connected with the paper believe that accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a woman. Joseph Pulitzer woman better you believe Whatever my trouble had been at first, it developed into separation of the retina in both eyes. From the day on which I first consulted the oculist up to the present time, about twenty-four years, I have only been three times in 'The World' building. Most people think I'm dead or living in Europe in complete retirement. Joseph Pulitzer eyes day time people
