"I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people."

(Joseph Pulitzer)

 

"At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business."

(Jim Walton, CNN President)

"A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state."

(Walter Lippman)

(Pulitzer Prize winner)

"A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad."

(Albert Camus)

"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper."

(Jerry Seinfeld)

"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

(Gore Vidal)

"Drop the "THE". Just "Facebook". It's cleaner."

(Sean Parker in the movie The Social Network, advising Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, to change the name from "The Facebook", to "Facebook")

"If you can’t imagine anyone linking to what you’re about to write, don’t write it."

(Jeff Jarvis, American Journalist)

"Please Repeat: Influence is NOT Popularity!"

(Brian Solis, briansolis.com)

"If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends."

(Jeff Bezos, CEO at amazon.com)

"If content is king, then conversion is queen."

 (John Munsell)
(CEO of Bizzuka)

"Quit counting fans, followers and blog subscribers like bottle caps. Think, instead, about what you’re hoping to achieve with and through the community that actually cares about what you’re doing."

(Amber Naslund)
(brasstackthinking.com)

“Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.”

(Seth Godin)

“At Twitter, mobile is in our DNA … For us, it’s all about mobile, and it always has been.”

(Biz Stone)
(co-founder of Twitter)

“The only way to put out a social-media fire is with social-media water.”

(Ramon DeLeon)
(managing partner of six Domino’s stores in Chicago)

“How can you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation? How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?”

(Seth Godin)

"Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism."

(Graham Greene)