31 Quotes About Column

  • Author John Reed
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    I'll give him credit for any steps in the right direction, but I'm not moving him into the recommend column until he fixes all of it.

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  • Author Allan Sloan
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    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.

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  • Author Allan Sloan
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    If a column is crying out for a good line and I can't come up with it, I troll for help. Communal humor is good, especially if you involve your boss.

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  • Author Ben Schwartz
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    I don't think they thought I was a threat to Steve Pederson. They thought someone would read my column and be inspired to hurt his kids.

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  • Author Bill Simmons
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    I graduated college in 1992 and didn't reach a sizable audience with my column for nine solid years. If I had started ten years later, or ten years sooner, everything could have happened sooner, obviously. But if I had started fifteen years later? I don't know.

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  • Author David Smith
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    Contrascam, Olliegate, president-bashing, Iranamok-place any person or group in Column A, and the drearisome foursome in Column B. Then generate headlines to your heart's content.

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  • Author Jeremy Stoppelman
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    As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.'

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