Katharine Graham Quotes


It took me a while to learn that certain people may have important skills that are not always blazingly apparent. Gradually I came to realize - slow as I may have been - that what mattered was performance, that sometimes people might have to be helped to develop, and that it takes all kinds to make an organization run properly.


Citations

Graham, Katharine. Personal History. Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

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Katharine Graham
Katharine Graham
  • Born: June 16, 1917
  • Died: July 17, 2001
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Newspaper Publisher

Katharine Meyer Graham was an American publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, from 1963 to 1991. Graham presided over the paper as it reported on the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. She was the first twentieth century female publisher of a major American newspaper. Graham's memoir, Personal History, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.