Business Quotes by Matt Taibbi

9 Business quotes by Matt Taibbi

A short, incisive set of nine thoughts from a veteran reporter, offering clear, skeptical takes on finance, power, and corporate behavior.

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I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was born to be in…

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To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines…

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“Say as little as possible, hope some of the undecideds like your teeth better than the other guy’s—that’s usually the way this…

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“After eighteen long months covering this dreary business, the whole campaign appears in my mind’s eye as one long, protracted scratch-fight over…

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For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be…

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What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they…

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The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened…

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“What this means is that the entire business model for something like Chase’s credit card business is not much more than a…

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“Our world isn’t about ideology anymore. It’s about complexity. We live in a complex bureaucratic state with complex laws and complex business…

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The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman…

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It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial…

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You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice…

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Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an…

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Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.

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You can have somebody living next door to you and you can live in a completely different world from that person, which is definitely…

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George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the…

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“People aren't pissed just to be pissed. They're mad because a tiny group of crooks on Wall Street built themselves beach houses in the…

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