Allan Sloan's Quotes

Allan Sloan (born 1944) is an American journalist, formerly senior editor at large at Fortune magazine. He is currently a columnist for The Washington Post.

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Allan Sloan about Life:

If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't ...
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Allan Sloan about Teamwork:

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.

Allan Sloan about Business:

When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect ...
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Allan Sloan about Environment:

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, ...
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Allan Sloan about Powerful:

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that ...
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Allan Sloan (born 1944) is an American journalist, formerly senior editor at large at Fortune magazine. He is currently a columnist for The Washington Post.

Sloan was born in Brooklyn, New York and is a 1966 graduate of Brooklyn College similar to a B.A.; he time-honored his M.S. as a 1967 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He attended the Jewish Theological Seminary for two years though he was an undergraduate at Brooklyn College.

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Allan Sloan about Family:

Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.

Allan Sloan about Great:

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

Allan Sloan about Environment:

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

Allan Sloan about Life:

If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was.

Allan Sloan about Business:

I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section.

Allan Sloan about Good:

It's easy to write a good column if you've got good information. It's hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose there are people who can get away with styling on a regular basis. I'm not one of them. You're probably not, either.

Allan Sloan about People:

People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia.

Allan Sloan about Powerful:

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

Allan Sloan about Teamwork:

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.

Allan Sloan about Good:

The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.

Allan Sloan about Think:

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

Allan Sloan about Government:

The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.

Allan Sloan about Business:

When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.