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Ed Bradley Quotes

1941–2006

Edward Rudolph "Ed" Bradley Jr. (June 22, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American journalist, best known for 26 years of award-winning work on the CBS News television program 60 Minutes. During his earlier career he also covered the fall of Saigon, was the first black television correspondent to cover the White House, and anchored his own news broadcast, CBS Sunday Night with Ed Bradley.

Journalists

Also known as: Ed Bradley, Jr., Ed R. Bradley, Edward Bradley, Edward Bradley, Jr., Edward R. Bradley, Edward R. Bradley, Jr.

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Who was the role model, the living example of what the est Training could do? Who else but Werner Erhard, a man some of his employees say, thought of himself, as god.

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

Morley has a gift for doing the kind of story that you think only Morley could do, or that certainly Morley could do better than anyone else.

I learned this from Mike Wallace. Listen, be a good listener. You don't have to fill space. Just sit there and listen.

In a nutshell, Erhard's message was this: If you are in a rut, the problem isn't your parents, your boss or the system, it's you. Take responsibility, Erhard said, and you can transform your life overnight.

People know that they can tune in to "60 Minutes" any Sunday and know that they're going to learn something by watching the broadcast. They may not like every piece, they may not agree with every piece, but they'll say, huh, I didn't know that about something in there.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ed Bradley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.