Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
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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.
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Birth: | 3rd April, 1898 |
Death: | 28th February, 1967 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Editor, Publisher |
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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