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Allan Sloan Quotes

American - Journalist | -

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.

Business Myself Best Job Writing

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.

Teamwork Isolation Better Than

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

Environment Sarcasm Way Talk Write

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.

People Chance Connections Help Fair

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

People Seriously Over Trivia Really

If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was.

Life Walk Government Think You Find

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.

Government Lawyer Thinking Questions

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.

Good Great Fun Me Ego Satisfaction

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.

Family Someone You Say Will Way

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.

Business Me Sunday Pay Leave Cut

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

Think You Stop Become Dig Reporter

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.

Good Alone Style People Information

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