Andrew Ross Sorkin Quotes

Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.

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• The future is always the same, and that is to win trophies - next season, in two and three years.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Future
  • Win
  • Season

• President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Security
  • Reputation

• Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • History
  • Growing

• Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • World
  • Space

• Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Work
  • Independence

• The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Parents

• Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Long
  • Done
  • Hurt

• I already am a product.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Product
  • Am

• The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

  

  Quintilian
  • Idea
  • Right
  • Misery

• For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Science

• People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • World
  • Humanity

• Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Years
  • Difference
  • Holocaust

• The mind is just another muscle.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Mind
  • Just
  • Another

• Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mother
  • Sleep
  • Singing

• I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Always
  • More
  • Accomplishment

• I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Life
  • Trust
  • Coffee

• I only started singing the Russian roles when I came west.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Singing
  • Only
  • West

• I write and walk and swim and drink.

  

  John le Carre

• Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.

  

  Amy Richards
  • World
  • Decisions
  • Majority

• When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience.

  

  Maurice Saatchi
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Service

• There is one particular argument that I call our 'ancient war.' If it could be summed up in one phrase, it would be, 'You don't get it. You don't understand what it's like to be me living with you.' There is such truth in that statement. None of us can really appreciate what it is like to be the other person, what that point of view feels like.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Up
  • Truth
  • War

• What’s wrong? Has Francis been rude? Then you must try to overlook it. I know you wouldn’t think so, but he is thoroughly upset by Tom Erskine’s death; and when Francis is troubled he doesn’t show it, he just goes and makes life wretched for somebody.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Life
  • Death
  • Rude

• Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • World
  • Wall
  • Financial