John Wanamaker Quotes

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.

John Wanamaker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 11, 1838 - December 12, 1922

Topics

MoneyAdvertisingTroubleKnowHalf

Bitcoin is probably the most fungible currency ever created.

Max Keiser

CurrencyBitcoinMostCreatedEver

I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint our toenails hardened. Our favorite videos gathered dust. Her small apron was in a box in the attic. Her shoes - the sparkly ones, the leopard rain boots, the ballet slippers - stood in a corner.

Ann Hood

MotherDaughterRainShoesSmall

I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

Michael Baden

LearningFailureGoodExperienceWhy

When it comes to granting unconditional birthright citizenship, the United States and Canada are alone in the industrialized world: North American exceptionalism, you can call it.

Anand Giridharadas

AloneWorldAmericanCitizenshipYou

In most countries, the political class supervises the defense establishment and restrains its leaders from violating human rights or pursuing dangerous, aggressive policies.

Ronen Bergman

PoliticalDangerousClassHumanMost

I do think that people deserve a basic economic floor so the bottom doesn't fall out under them.

Michael Tubbs

PeopleThinkFallDeserveOutFloor

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

Michael Ledeen

GodHistoryStoryEarthHumanError

I didn't think, 'I'd really like to work in TV; maybe I could carve out a niche where I talk to people who are somehow involved in marginal or difficult lifestyles... ' It was something I gravitated to very naturally as a subject area, almost instinctively, and somehow turned into a TV career without meaning to.

Louis Theroux

WorkPeopleThinkMeaningCareer

We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's pretty basic.

Jon Fishman

LiveTryPrettyWhereStuffBasic

The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot - indicates not the state of poetry but, frankly, the rung of the evolutionary ladder on which society is stuck.

Joseph Brodsky

PoetrySocietyLadderDifficultRung

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

Christiane Amanpour

GoodWorldBelieveBetterJournalism

Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.

Alice S. Rossi

WorkJobManPeopleValuesWant

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by John Wanamaker