I think there's huge room for a personality who can create a following, and that personality can be a person or a company.

I tend to be more interested in the trend pieces than who got a licensing deal for sunglasses, but that's not surprising.

You can't just reprise the news. You have to have journalism that makes a point and you have to be in sync with your audience.

I've always had an interest in geopolitics and macroeconomics.

Native advertising covers an awful lot of stuff. In many ways, it's just an extension of what in print had been called for years an advertorial.

I think there's still room for compelling voices to build up and get a great following.

There are newsweeklies that are dead. Some may still be walking, but they're dead.

You learn a lot from your customers, and when your customers are also your owners, you learn even more.

I'm much more optimistic about the future than I probably was.

Just as there's some technologies that jeopardize revenue for traditional products, there are also technologies that can significantly lower costs.

We should want our advertising to be compelling.

How do you know, that you know?

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.

Palestinians caged up like animals.

A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

Most of our imports come from other countries

There’s no way to succeed in business without the highest ethical standards.

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.