The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs. Russell Baker boardroombusinessdiscussion Change image and share on social
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. Russell Baker banditbrilliantburberry share on social
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. Russell Baker companyinsistlong Change image and share on social
When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed. Russell Baker ambitiousbeginningdeath Change image and share on social
Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev. Russell Baker 1980sastonishcold share on social
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. Russell Baker agoalienbegin Change image and share on social
Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were. Russell Baker agebackcarry Change image and share on social
Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product. Russell Baker journalismmaximizeminimize Change image and share on social
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. Russell Baker excuseprogressrequire Change image and share on social
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. Russell Baker defeatgoalinanimate Change image and share on social