Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by William S. Paley

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businessman William S. Paley.

Last updated on April 20, 2025.

William Samuel Paley was an American businessman, primarily involved in the media, and best known as the chief executive who built the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) from a small radio network into one of the foremost radio and television network operations in the United States of America.

American - Businessman | September 28, 1901 - October 26, 1990

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What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That's what they expect from us.

William S. Paley

In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.

William S. Paley

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

William S. Paley

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

William S. Paley

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

William S. Paley

Television, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium.

William S. Paley

He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry attacks democracy itself.

William S. Paley