“I think that argument is completely morally bankrupt, and I think people know that when they make it. There's a very big difference between having a sincere, passionate interest in a topic and being a paid shill. Particularly for PR firms, it's something they should really very strongly avoid: ever touching an article.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldBigsInterestDifferencesArgumentPaidPassionateFirmSincereTouchingArticlesVery StrongTopicsShills Author:Jimmy Wales
“The Internet will not become a money machine until the banking industry figures out how to transfer money for free so you can charge USD 0.005 (half a cent) for some simple service like, say, reading a newspaper article you have searched for. With today's payment system, the cost of the transfer of the funds completely dwarf the cost of the service paid for. ... This situation, however, is what acutely prevents the Internet from taking off as a network for paid services.” TodayReadingSimpleHalfSituationFiguresIndustryInternetCostMachinesPaidNewspapersFundArticlesCentsBankingPaymentTransfersDwarfsDwarves Author:Erik Naggum
“Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.” MeanFiveThousandFameGloryPaidDinnerNewspapersArticlesTwelveCrowns Author:Honore de Balzac
“When a thing is bought not for its use but for its costliness, cheapness is no recommendation. As Sismondi remarks, the consequence of cheapening articles of vanity, is not that less is expended on such things, but that the buyers substitute for the cheapened article some other which is more costly, or a more elaborate quality of the same thing; and as the inferior quality answered the purpose of vanity equally well when it was equally expensive, a tax on the article is really paid by nobody: it is a creation of public revenue by which nobody loses.” WellsUsePurposeLosesQualityCreationTaxesConsequencePaidVanityExpensiveSubstitutesArticlesInferiorsRevenueRemarksBuyersRecommendationsCheapness Book:Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy Source: Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy
“Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.” ComfortPaidAddLuxuryArticlesConsumptionRevenue Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“This was another subject of criticism. She was being paid, as I recall, during the 1940's, what was then a princely sum, something like a dollar a word. I don't say that for the column, but for articles that she would write and things like that. And she made lots of speeches.” WritingMadeSubjectsSpeechCriticismPaidDollarsArticlesRecallsColumns Author:William A. Rusher
“There's so many amazing articles coming out all the time and because of the internet circulating great writing - even if the writers don't get paid enough most of the time, unfortunately - but there's never been a more amazing flow of information on all of the issues. I would love to see a revival of what we had against the war in the '60s - we could do thes” IfsWritingWarEnoughIssuesInformationInternetFlowPaidArticlesComing OutRevivalGreat Writing Author:Bonnie Raitt