Yardstick Quotes

A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.