83 Quotes by Andrew Ross Sorkin

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.

In truth, the best Bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that.

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

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

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

The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.

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.

Bitcoin, in the short or even long term, may turn out be a good investment in the same way that anything that is rare can be considered valuable. Like baseball cards. Or a Picasso.

What if lawmakers never spoke to their constituents? Oddly enough, that's exactly how corporate America operates. Shareholders vote for directors, but the directors rarely, if ever, communicate with them.