Herbert Bayard Swope Sr. was an American editor, journalist and intimate of the Algonquin Round Table. Swope spent most of his career at the New York World. He was the first and three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting. Swope was called the "best reporter in America" by Lord Northcliffe of the London Daily Mail.
All Quotes by Herbert Bayard Swope
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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
—Herbert Bayard Swope
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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
