20 Quotes by Allan Sloan

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.

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.

People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.

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.

Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.