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Steve Hagen
- Earl Janoth: [entering the conference room; people gathered at the table rise to greet him] Sit down, gentlemen, sit down. I resent this, I resent this deeply. There are 2 billion, 81 million, 376 thousand seconds in the average man's life, each tick of the clock a beat of the heart. And yet you sit here uselessly ticking your lives away because certain members of our conference are not on schedule. Where is George Stroud?
- Steve Hagen: Roy's trying to find him.
- Earl Janoth: [to Steve Hagen] I do not propose to be held up, not even by Mr. Stroud. Have you, uh, told others what we want?
- Steve Hagen: Ideas to build circulation.
- Earl Janoth: Not just ideas, Steve, dynamic angles. We live in a dynamic age, gentlemen, with dynamic competitors - radio, newspapers, newsreels - and we must anticipate trends before they *are* trends. We are in effect, uh, clairvoyants. Correct?
- [entire board replies "Yes, Mr. Janoth"]
- Earl Janoth: [continues] I have provided the tools, a budget of $37 million, a staff of 3,600, bureaus from Reykjavik to Cairo, Moscow to Buenos Aires. All this is waste, sheer waste, under a leadership of chuckleheads.
- Earl Janoth: [addressing board member Seymour Roberts] Now, Mr. Roberts, you have exactly one minute to tell us how you propose to add 100,000 subscriptions to Newsways.
- Seymour Roberts: [rises to speak, a bit nervous] Ahem, well, uh, I suggest that, uh, we offer prizes for the best letters from subscribers on, uh, how to preserve world peace. A thousand dollars each week, and a grand prize of $25,000 to be awarded to the...
- Earl Janoth: [looking at his watch, impatiently cutting him off] General theory of the publishing business, Roberts, is to sell magazines, not to pay people to read them.
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