Henry R. Luce Quotes

• Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

  Henry R. Luce

  Topics in Business, Future

  Tags in Occupation, Instinctive, Foresight, Dealing, Calculation, Continual, Any, Than, Other, Exercise, More

• What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are: and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

  Henry R. Luce

  Topics in Ability, Achievement

• I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

  Henry R. Luce

• I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

  Henry R. Luce

• Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

  Henry R. Luce

• Show me a man who claims he is objective and I’ll show you a man with illusions.

  Henry R. Luce

• There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

  Henry R. Luce

• Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

  Henry R. Luce

• To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.

  Henry R. Luce

Henry R. Luce (9)

Birth:	3rd April, 1898
Death:	28th February, 1967
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Editor, Publisher

About

Henry Robinson Luce was born in Tengchow, Shandong, China. He was a Chinese-born American publisher and editor. He launched the business magazine Fortune in February 1930 and acquired Life in order to relaunch it as a weekly magazine of photojournalism in November 1936; he went on to launch House & Home in 1952 and Sports Illustrated in 1954. He also produced The March of Time weekly newsreel. He educated at China Inland Mission Chefoo School, Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, University of Oxford, and Yale University.

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