Allan Sloan Quotes

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

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

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist. - Allan Sloan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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