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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I think plenty of games - from 'Thief' to 'Zelda' - have shown that sneaking around can be fun.
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I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.
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As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting me in acting class. But I got bored when we stopped pretending to be trees and actually had to work.
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The United States enjoy a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for.
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Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, we are alone indeed! We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.
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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
