Andrew Ross Sorkin Quotes
What if the slowdown in merger activity isn't cyclical, but secular? What if corporations have learned the lessons of so many companies before them that the odds of a successful merger are no better than 50-50 and probably less? Is it possible that the biggest deals have already been done?Andrew Ross Sorkin
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
Vernor Vinge -
If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
Salman Rushdie -
Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
Nas -
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
Harold Washington
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
Victoria Pendleton -
The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
Nancy Lopez -
Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
Barton Gellman -
I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.
Tamron Hall -
I do think one should have clean feet.
Manolo Blahnik -
There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
Warren Buffett
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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
Sam Harris -
Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
Zach Wamp -
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.
Ted Allen -
I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
Vera Wang -
I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
Victoria Justice
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Some people think Hollywood is shallow. I find that it's home.
Chelsea Handler -
Everything about a date is weird, especially if it's a new person you don't really know. You want to take them somewhere you think they're going to like, but you don't want to ask that question because you want to look like you're in control of the situation. So I think dates are just weird in general.
Matt Cohen -
I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one.
Paulo Coelho -
There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.
Jack White The White Stripes -
I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time.
David Copperfield -
What if the slowdown in merger activity isn't cyclical, but secular? What if corporations have learned the lessons of so many companies before them that the odds of a successful merger are no better than 50-50 and probably less? Is it possible that the biggest deals have already been done?
Andrew Ross Sorkin