Quotes by Andrew Ross Sorkin

About Andrew Ross Sorkin:

Andrew Ross Sorkin is a Gerald Loeb Award-winning American journalist and author. He is a financial columnist for The New York Times and a co-anchor of CNBC's Squawk Box. He is also the founder and editor of DealBook, a financial news service published by The New York Times. He wrote the bestselling book Too Big to Fail (2009) and co-produced a movie adaptation of the book for HBO Films (2011).
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In truth, a leader should either apologize, mean it and do something about it - or not apologize at all.

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Investors are sometimes too busy looking for profits to notice where the truth ends and the deception begins.

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I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers will be interested in and should know about.

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When you can't lend or trade - and you can't invest with the leverage that juiced returns to support seven- and eight-figure bonuses - how exactly are you going to make money?

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I don't sleep well. I'm a very nervous - by my nature - anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter.

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Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rates and the closing of loopholes, which many companies are sure to fight. And whatever new, lower tax rate is determined, there will probably be another...

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I started, actually, in journalism when I was - well. I started at the 'New York Times' when I was 18 years old, actually, but really got into journalism when I was 15 years old and had started a sports magazine which was trying to become a national ...

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I was always one of those people who would watch the Super Bowl as much for the sports as I did for the ads. I was always just sort of fascinated by the fact that when you turn on the TV, there was motion, there was moving pictures on it.

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As a child, I always enjoyed - my parents used to have these little cocktail parties - and I always loved trying to get the adults to tell me things they weren't supposed to say. And in many ways, that's what my job is today; it's getting people to t...

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Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.

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Debt, we've learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains - pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies - but all require ...

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Forget about banks that are too big to fail; the focus should be on cities, municipalities and countries that are too big to fail.

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The euphoria around economic booms often obscures the possibility for a bust, which explains why leaders typically miss the warning signs.

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We talk about institutions that are too big to fail - I think the story is as much about people who think they are too big to fail.

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It's the people who have an incentive to find the problem who usually find the problem.

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There is a long list of psychology research demonstrating that appearances matter more than most us would care to admit. As shallow as it may be, better-looking people have been shown in various studies to have higher self-esteem and more charisma, a...

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Some billionaires like cars, yachts and private jets. Others like newspapers.

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Here's the perversity of Wall Street's psychology: The more Wall Street is convinced that Washington will act rationally and raise the debt ceiling, most likely at the 11th hour, the less pressure there will be on lawmakers to reach an agreement. Tha...

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What keeps me up at night? Waking up to a scoop at another newspaper or on TV. I'm probably competitive, almost too much so. I will stay up till the Web sites at night roll over. And if they don't roll over, I'll stay up until it's done. I'll wake up...

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There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly steered the country from economic ruin. To many ordinary Americans, however, he is considered a Wall Street puppet and a servant of the so-called bankste...

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I'm probably a believer in abandoning too-big-to-fail firms or breaking them up in some way so that the system can try to take care of itself. I imagine you're not going to get there, and therefore, I suspect regulation is what's going to be required...

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Author Bio

  • NameAndrew Ross Sorkin
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist and author
  • BornFebruary 19, 1977
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Author
  • WorksToo Big To Fail