Al Ries Quotes
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
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I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction these days, what with all the magazine covers and morning news shows. My mother knows who he is now, and my mother can hardly turn on a computer.
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When a product is made, everyone hopes for the best. Whether it could have been better or not is more of an afterthought.
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It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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Most of us can now record a whole series with the click of a button. We all have DVD players, and the rise of the DVD box-set means we watch this stuff in two, three-hour sessions. So there is this real appetite out there for lengthy, pretty intricate drama. All that is great news for writers.
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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Hey, if we didn't overcharge for our product - guess what - people wouldn't have to buy used games.
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I do believe in standing for something more than just a product.
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The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.
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The only way to advertise is by not focusing on the product.
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in South Africa. Calvinist fundamentalism has been an unmitigated force of benightedness in our history.
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Anything that would kind of label me or put me into a category is kind of what I want to avoid. I like the idea of being completely free, like having no area that I couldn't cover.
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The news from the U.S. continues to come out encouraging for the dollar.
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I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.
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I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.
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I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time.
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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
