Allan Sloan Quotes & Sayings

“Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.”